Quotations from P G Wodehouse are copyright of, and reprinted by permission of, the Trustees of the Wodehouse Estate © 2012 The P G Wodehouse Society (UK)

The British Library launches a CD set

including P G Wodehouse talking about Jeeves and Wooster

The British Library have written to the P G Wodehouse Society (UK) announcing the launch of 'two major audio titles': The Spoken Word: British Writers and The Spoken Word: American Writers. Each title features 3 CDs along with a booklet. They cost £19.95 inc VAT each, plus postage and packing of £1.00 for the UK and £2.00 for overseas.

The reason the British Library has drawn our attention to the recordings is that the British Writers collection contains a recording of P G Wodehouse talking about Jeeves and Wooster. This is the first time that this recording has been made commercially available.

To find out more, please visit the British Library online shop (here).

The Guardian has issued a review of these CDs, including this comment on Plum: "One of the jolliest interviewees is PG Wodehouse, in conversation with Alistair Cooke in 1963. They talk jocularly about a new theory that automation is going to throw so many people out of work that by the year 2000 every middle-class family will need four servants to keep people employed." The full article is here.