Jeeves & Wooster: The Collected Radio Dramas

This collection of six full-cast radio dramas about the misadventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s personal gentleman, Reginald Jeeves, is a delightful, entertaining, and hilarious listen. Each of the installments—The Inimitable Jeeves, Right Ho, Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, and Jeeves: Joy in the Morning—is chock-full of classic Wodehouse ingredients: angry aunts, broken engagements, conniving friends, overbearing fiancées, unimaginable imbroglios, wild schemes, and madcap antics. Michael Hordern and Richard Briers deliver unforgettable performances: Horden’s spot-on rendition of the brilliant Jeeves is appropriately refined and demure, while Briers’s portrayal of Wooster captures the character’s flighty, bumbling, and good-natured essence. The supporting cast is equally skilled, bringing to life everyone from Aunt Agatha and Madeline Bassett to Honoria Glossop and Gussie Fink-Nottle. Fans of Wodehouse will be absolutely delighted. (Jan.)