Genre | Comedy |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
Starring | Richard Vernon Ian Carmichael |
Written by | Richard Usborne, adapted from the works of P. G. Wodehouse |
Produced by | Bobby Jaye Martin Fisher Gareth Edwards |
Narrated by | Nigel Anthony Ronald Fletcher Moray Watson |
Original release | 2 February 1985 – 13 February 1992 |
No. of episodes | 25 |
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.