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Blandings: Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey!
ISBN
9781448150946
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
04-01-2013
Bindwijze
Ebook EPUB
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Random House
Auteur(s)
P.G. Wodehouse

Blandings: Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey!

(Episode 1)

Reeks: Blandings

P.G. Wodehouse
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  • EPISODE
  • 1
  • IN
  • A
  • MAJOR
  • BBC
  • DRAMA
  • STARRING
  • TIMOTHY
  • SPALL,
  • DAVID
  • WALLIAMS
  • AND
  • JENNIFER
  • SAUNDERSClarence
  • has
  • to
  • get
  • his
  • pig
  • eating
  • again
  • or
  • lose
  • the
  • fat-pig
  • prize
  • to
  • his
  • arch
  • nemesis.Lord
  • Clarence
  • Emsworth’s
  • pride
  • and
  • joy,
  • the
  • prize-winning
  • pig
  • Empress
  • of
  • Blandings
  • refuses
  • to
  • eat
  • when
  • Cyril
  • the
  • pig-man
  • is
  • jailed
  • by
  • Clarence’s
  • conniving
  • rival
  • Sir
  • Gregory
  • Parsloe-Parsloe.With
  • the
  • prize’s
  • weigh-in
  • only
  • two-weeks
  • away,
  • Clarence
  • and
  • his
  • gambling,
  • spendthrift
  • son
  • Freddie
  • are
  • desperate
  • to
  • get
  • the
  • Empress
  • to
  • eat.Meanwhile,
  • Clarence’s
  • sister
  • Connie
  • attempts
  • to
  • thwart
  • her
  • niece
  • Angela’s
  • love
  • affair
  • with
  • ex-cowboy
  • Jimmy
  • and
  • instead
  • find
  • her
  • a
  • more
  • eminent
  • match
  • in
  • the
  • smarmy
  • Heacham
  • –
  • Sir
  • Gregory’s
  • nephew!'Sublime
  • comic
  • genius' Ben
  • Elton'You
  • don't
  • analyse
  • such
  • sunlit
  • perfection,
  • you
  • just
  • bask
  • in
  • its
  • warmth
  • and
  • splendour.' Stephen
  • Fry'The
  • funniest
  • writer
  • ever
  • to
  • put
  • words
  • to
  • paper.' Hugh
  • Laurie'P.G.
  • Wodehouse
  • remains
  • the
  • greatest
  • chronicler
  • of
  • a
  • certain
  • kind
  • of
  • Englishness,
  • that
  • no
  • one
  • else
  • has
  • ever
  • captured
  • quite
  • so
  • sharply,
  • or
  • with
  • quite
  • as
  • much
  • wit
  • and
  • affection.' Julian Fellowes
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