Blandings (radio series)

Blandings
Cover of the audio cassette release of Galahad at Blandings, part of the Blandings radio series
GenreComedy
Running time30 minutes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Radio 4
StarringRichard Vernon
Ian Carmichael
Written byRichard Usborne, adapted from the works of P. G. Wodehouse
Produced byBobby Jaye
Martin Fisher
Gareth Edwards
Narrated byNigel Anthony
Ronald Fletcher
Moray Watson
Original release2 February 1985 –
13 February 1992
No. of episodes25

The Blandings radio series is a series of radio dramas based on the Blandings Castle stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.[1] The stories were dramatised by Wodehouse biographer Richard Usborne.[2] The series ran between 1985 and 1992 on BBC Radio 4.

The 1985 episodes are based on six short stories. The first five of these short stories were featured in the collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935), while the sixth, "The Crime Wave at Blandings", was collected in Lord Emsworth and Others (1937). The later episodes are based on four novels published between 1929 and 1965.

  1. ^ "Blandings On Radio 4". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  2. ^ Taves (2006), p. 133.