Uneasy Money with Tom Bailey

Drop the Dead Monkey! Ian is joined by writer and artist Tom Bailey to look at 1916's Uneasy Money, Wodehouse's second serial for the Saturday Evening Post, which had a personal significance for Plum and Ethel Wodehouse, as it is set in Long Island, setting of their courtship and early married life; and like them, the hero and heroine are married at the "Church 'Round the Corner" on Madison Square, also the inspiration for the song of the same name by Wodehouse and Jerome Kern. Tom and Ian debate the merits or otherwise of Wodehouse's more romantic novels, and of romance stories in general.

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Other works by Wodehouse mentioned

"Bill" (song)

"At Geisenheimer's"

"Extricating Young Gussie"

Something Fresh

Performing Flea

A Gentleman of Leisure

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