Millions) The Mammoth Publishing Company crops up in many other stories, for example providing employment for Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine in Something Fresh. Adaptations Norman Shelley portrayed Lord Tilbury in the 1938 radio adaptation of Sam the Sudden, which was titled Semi-Detached. Lord Tilbury was voiced by John Savident in the Blandings radio series adaptation of Heavy Weather in 1988. He was portrayed by Richard Johnson in the 1995 television film Heavy Weather. References P. G. Wodehouse characters Fictional lords and ladies Literary characters introduced in 1924