and is never engaged to Myrtle. Brinkley's political views are never mentioned. Instead, he is portrayed as a grouchy, amoral, opportunistic, middle-aged man. In the first episode, Bertie's cottage catches fire when Chuffy tries to return Bertie to bed. Chuffy saves Pauline from the fire. Jeeves had intended for Stoker to discover Pauline in Bertie's room, so he would look more kindly on Chuffy. Jeeves returns to Bertie's employment and they go home. In the second episode, members of the Drones Club form the blackface minstrel troupe; in the original story, Bertie does not know the minstrels. Stoker locks both Bertie and Jeeves inside a room on his yacht. Radio Thank You, Jeeves was adapted into a radio drama in 1975 as part of the series What Ho! Jeeves starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster. In 1998, the novel was dramatized by L.A. Theatre Works, with Paxton Whitehead voicing Jeeves and Simon Templeman voicing Bertie Wooster. Directed by Rosalind Ayres, the radio drama also featured Gregory Cooke as Chuffy, Jennifer Tilly as Pauline Stoker, Guy Siner as Sir Roderick Glossop, Kenneth Danziger as Sergeant Voules, Alastair Duncan as Brinkley and Seabury, and Dominic Keating as Constable Dobson. J. Washburn Stoker was voiced by Richard Riordan, who was Mayor of Los Angeles at the time of recording. In this adaptation, the minstrel musicians were changed to Appalachian hillbilly performers. To help Bertie escape from Stoker's yacht, Jeeves disguises Bertie as one of the performers by giving him a false beard, using dyed cotton wool applied with adhesive. Bertie then requires butter, like in the novel, to remove the adhesive. Mark Richard, who adapted the story for L.A. Theatre Works, had previously incorporated this change into a 1996 stage adaptation of the novel. Richard's adaptation was also used for a 2013 stage production of Thank You, Jeeves. References Notes Sources External links The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters Novels by P. G. Wodehouse 1934 British novels Works originally published in The Strand Magazine Novels first published in serial form Novels set in Dorset British comedy novels Herbert Jenkins books Little, Brown and Company books