I'll Be Dashed: A Wodehouse Podcast
Episodes
Luck of the Bodkins
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After a long break of posting episodes, Scott and Robyn are back with a book that makes them both very angry. This books us ask very pertinent questio...
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After a hiatus that was entirely Scott's fault, Robyn and Scott are back with another episode, this time talking about the short story collection, Bla...
Right Ho, Jeeves
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Robyn and Scott discuss Right Ho, Jeeves, Wodehouse's second Jeeves and Wooster novel. This is also the first book discussed in the p...
Tales of St Austin's
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, Robyn and Scott talk about the Tales of St. Austin's, a collection of school stories published in 1903, only Wodehouse's second publishe...
The Girl in Blue
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robyn and Scott discuss The Girl in Blue, Wodehouse's 1970 novel, which, unlike most Wodehouse books, appears to be a book of its time. Although it's ...
Piccadilly Jim
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scott and Robyn talk about Piccadilly Jim, a novel in which Ogden Ford from The Little Nugget is once again the target of kidnapping ...
The Gold Bat
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The third novel published by PG Wodehouse is a short school story that nevertheless is able to fit 43 different speaking characters into it--most of w...
Heavy Weather
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode Robyn and Scott talk about Heavy Weather, the sequel to Summer Lightning, in which everyone seems to show up at Blandings Castle, prevent...
Thank You, Jeeves
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, Robyn and Scott discuss Wodehouse's first Jeeves and Wooster novel, Thank You, Jeeves. We discuss what it means to use harsh language in...
Meet Mr. Mulliner
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Note: Sorry for the delay in episodes. We have been recording them. I've just been way behind on editing and posting them. I will be uploading more ep...
The Adventures of Sally
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Adventures of Sally is one of PG Wodehouse's few books with a female main character (several are mentioned in the podcast, but one that wasn't is ...
Psmith, Journalist
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month we speak about Psmith, Journalist, the third book in the Mike and Psmith series and the last one we are covering, much to Robyn's consterna...
The Prince and Betty
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode Robyn and Scott discuss The Prince and Betty, which has the character Rupert Smith in it, but is not part of the Psmith series, although ...
Summer Lightning
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Summer Lightning is the third Blandings Castle novel, in which we are first introducted to both the prized pig Empress of Blandings (at least her nove...
Very Good, Jeeves
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Very Good, Jeeves, is the last Jeeves and Wooster collection. Although individual Jeeves and Wooster stories would appear in collections, all Jeeves a...
A Prefect's Uncle
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this podcast, Scott and Robyn discuss A Prefect's Uncle, Wodehouse's second published novel, and another book that involves school boys and cricket...
A Damsel in Distress
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Robyn and Scott discuss A Damsel in Distress, published in 1919. It reads much like a Blandings Castle novel, with an earl harried by ...
Love Among the Chickens
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robyn and Scott discuss Love Among the Chickens, published in 1906 and having the first appearance of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, possibly Wode...
The Little Nugget
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scott and Robyn read the 1913 novel The Little Nugget, one of the money Wodehouse novels that seems to concentrate inordinately on the kidnapping of a...
Leave It To Psmith
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scott and Robyn discuss Leave It to Psmith, the second Blandings Castle novel AND the final Mike and Psmith (now with almost no Mike) novel--but Robyn...
Frozen Assets
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Set in Paris and London, this stand-alone novel published in the 1960s opens with one of Wodehouse's funniest scenes. We have love at first sight--wel...
Carry On, Jeeves
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the third book of Jeeves and Wooster adventures, including a story of how they first met and the only story written from Jeeves's point of ...
Psmith In the CIty
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss Psmith in the City, the second in the Psmith series and with one of Robyn's "favorite" characters. Psmith and Mike have left school and are...
The Pothunters
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scott and Robyn discuss The Pothunters, Wodehouse's first novel. It's a short book with a wide cast of characters. Who's the main character? We're no...
Quick Service
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is another one of Wodehouse's standalone novels. It had a large cast with a revolving door of plots, nearly all of which center around a painting...
The Inimitable Jeeves
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with another Jeeves and Wooster collection! The main theme in this one is that, while Bertie has a lot of terrible friends, the one in this...
Mike and Psmith
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The follow up to Mike at Wrykyn is discussed. We are introduced to a new character at a new school, Psmith. Robyn cannot stand this character. There i...
Mike at Wrykyn
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mike at Wrykyn is one of Wodehouse's school novels and the first appearance of Mike Jackson. He is a totally average boy except for the fact that he i...
Hot Water
18 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hot Water is one of PG's standalone novels. It features many, many people on converging at a Chateau to try to steal from one of the other guests. Hij...
My Man Jeeves
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My Man Jeeves is the first collection of short stories featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves. The collection has four short stories with them...
Something Fresh
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Something Fresh, or Something New if you read the US version, is the first novel in the Blandings Castle Series, and we've decided to start here!