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Thom Robinson

Thom Robinson

Writer and guest on the Wodehousekeeping podcast, where he discussed P.G. Wodehouse's "Love Among the Chickens" with host Ian Cockburn.

Sep 22, 2026

43:24
Huzzah!
43:25
I remember when I was growing up there was an old Penguin copy of the inimitable Jeeves in the house and at some point I... gravitated to that i think i liked the idea of a book with a word like inimitable in the title probably quite appealing to a precocious child and i liked old things i used to read a lot of the william books and the anthony bookridge jennings and derbyshire books which are quite heavily indebted to pg woodhouse i think
48:09
But to be honest, sometimes I think people make too big a deal about this kind of thing nowadays.
48:17
I was very interested to see in terms of the sheer length of Woodhouse's career that the last Euclid story, Euclid Starts a Bank Account, was published in Playboy in July 1967 with illustrations by Edward Gorey and it's just a completely different universe from the world of this Edwardian novel.

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