2. Jeeves Intervenes

Local curate Rev 'Stinker' Pinker is in love with Sir Watkyn Bassett's niece, Stiffy Byng. They can't get married until Pinker gets a vicarage of his own.

Sir Watkyn holds one in his gift, but he's not keen on Stinker. Control-freak Stiffy orders Bertie to help.

Bad idea.

Blackmail, petty larceny, elopement and knock-out blows ensue. Can Jeeves untangle these threads and keep the young master out of jail? Will bibulous Major Plank or cheery Aunt Dahlia hinder things?

Of course, it's Jeeves who engineers a surprising conclusion.

Martin Jarvis reprises his award-winning Broadway characterisation as Jeeves.

Also starring Joanna Lumley, Ian Ogilvy and Michael York.

Aunt Dahlia...Joanna Lumley
Bertie Wooster...James Callis
Jeeves...Martin Jarvis
Roderick Spode...Adam Godley
Major Plank...Michael York
Sir Watkyn Bassett...Ian Ogilvy
Rev Harold Pinker...Julian Sands
Stiffy Byng...Moira Quirk
Madeline Bassett...Elizabeth Knowelden
Gussie Fink-Nottle...Matthew Wolf
P.C. Oates...Darren Richardson
Emerald Stoker...Tara Lynne Barr
Cyril/Butterfield...Kenneth Danziger

Dramatised by Archie Scottney

Sound Design: Mark Holden

Director: Rosalind Ayres

A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2018.