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P. G. Wodehouse Volume 2
- The Blandings Collection
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 45 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
Audible Studios presents the second volume of the best-selling PG Wodehouse collection. In this volume, Stephen Fry lends his voice to the Blandings stories. This collection contains:
Summer Lightning
Heavy Weather
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere
Lord Emsworth and Others
Uncle Fred in the Spring Time
Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all-round national treasure. Whilst at university, Fry became involved with the Cambridge Footlights, where he met his long-time collaborator and friend, Hugh Laurie. As half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. Fry’s acting roles include Blackadder, Kingdom, Bones, V for Vendetta, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and The Hobbit trilogy. He has written and presented several documentary series and as a proudly out gay man, the award-winning Out There, documenting the lives of lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people around the world is part of his 30-year advocacy of the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. Fry has written four novels: The Liar, The Hippopotamus (made in to a feature film in 2018), Making History and The Stars’ Tennis Balls. Translated into many languages, they have never been out of print. The most recently published works are Mythos, Heroes and Troy, a trilogy retelling the Greeks myths from the Creation to the aftermath of the Trojan War.
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- Dave
- 27-12-23
Please do a 3rd series
Stephen Fry never fails. Absolutely wonderful . I hope they do a 3rd but for now I'll go back to Jeeves and start all over again. x
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- A Non
- 27-12-21
A Tour de Force by Stephen Fry and P.G.W.!
An exhaustive collection of Blandings and related stories, perfectly delivered by the seemingly inexhaustible Stephen Fry!
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- Ben Roake
- 23-09-21
Wodehouse & Fry
This might be the best paired author and narrator you could possibly hope for! I could listen to Mr Fry speaking the beautifully crafted words of Wodehouse all day, everyday.
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- Kilrymont
- 19-05-22
Its more about Fry than Wodehouse
Fry injects life into anything and everything he tackles; this is vintage Fry - and is quality stuff.
His vocalisations of the characters are famously terrific, so that even indifferent material is given a boost - and so it is here, which I myself don't see as particularly vintage Wodehouse.
But even non vintage Wodehouse is still head and shoulders above the scribblings of the herd, of which he is certainly not a member. To quote Mr B. Wooster, Wodehouse "stands alone".
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-11-23
Mr Fry.
I have been recovering from a hip replacement and I’ve had to spend a long time without going out. This was depressing and boring me. Listening to Mr Fry read the beautiful prose by Mr Wodehouse amused me and uplifted me with his use of transferred epithets and other beautiful uses of the language. I particularly liked his references to golf and its happy niblicks.
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- DM
- 23-08-21
Best stories missing - still great though
This is a nice collection. However, as others have said, the selection of stories is a little bit confusing. My two favourite stories of the Blandings saga are the first two ("Something Fresh", "Leave it to Psmith"), and they are not contained in the present recording! Both are available on Audible, and I would recommend the versions read by Cecil. It is a real shame that these first two would have been left out of this collection. Moreover, there are various bits of the Hollywood narrations included here, which have nothing to do with Blandings. I would have loved to see all the Blandings stories in one place and so I feel this was a real missed opportunity. Stephen Fry is great, as always.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-03-23
Brilliant
Just as good as the first volume always a sinking feeling when I know the stories are coming to an end for the fabulous characters.
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- J. LoVecchio
- 08-08-21
40+ hours of mostly harmless Fry babble
I wasn't familiar with these the way I was with Jeeves. the last story has blackface and there are other instances of dated racist language. overall it made good enough background
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- Christopher James Trapp
- 27-03-22
Excellent!
A fantastic story, brilliantly told and full of great farce which will keep you wanting more.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-12-21
Wonderful as only The Master can be
I'm a lifelong devotee of Wodehouse and envy anyone who is embarking on their first read. I was worried that Fry wouldn't do him justice, but I needn't have. He read these works so well, I shall be listening again and again. His love for Wodehouse and enjoyment of his language shines through. Superb!
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