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Award-winning Martin Jarvis performs the second of two PG Wodehouse comic classics, live on-stage. Jeeves as ‘stand-up’!

This story is a favourite story among the many Wodehouse aficionados. At Twing Hall there's a scheme afoot among the young guests to run a handicap on the length of the sermons preached by the vicars of the dozen hamlets within a six mile radius. Bertie is persuaded by his nephews to fund their bets as well as his own. The odds-on favorite is old Heppenstall, who has inadvertently distorted the odds by losing half his notes on the previous Sunday and consequently preached a falsely abbreviated sermon. His full sermon is guaranteed to last an hour. The odds fluctuate. It's a wild race, culminating in a loss for Bertie. But a win for the inimitable Jeeves.

A packed house at The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey rocks with laughter as Martin Jarvis plays Jeeves, Bertie and everybody else.

Director: Rosalind Ayres
A Jarvis and Ayres production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4