Indiscretions of Archie with Peter Falconer

Ian is rejoined by composer, writer, musician, voice artist, and parafictionalist Peter Falconer to look at Indiscretions of Archie (1921), a series of short stories adapted into the form of a novel. Topics arising include the First World War, Prohibition, 'the Irish question' and Labour Relations.

There will be plot spoilers.

Next month: The Clicking of Cuthbert, or Golf Without Tears.

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Reference works consulted

Robert McCrum: Wodehouse: A Life

Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

Norman Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook

Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition

Lee Davis: Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern