Rejoice, dear Anglophiles! How to Live Like a Lord Without Really Trying by Shepherd Mead, author of the highly successful How to Succeed in Business Without Really trying, is now in re-print--by Oxford University Press, no less. The charming book was penned by Mead after he and his family moved to England and originally published in 1964. It was written as a satirical "guidebook" for fellow Americans who planned to move across the pond. Though the book is comedic, light reading, it does chronicle a vanishing way of life in Britain--that of the manor--thus the book's importance to British history.
And yet more lighthearted amusement for the Anglophile....
BBC has produced a new 6-part, period comedy for TV called Blandings, based on PG Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories. The half-hour episodes, set in 1929, features the follies of the aristocratic Emsworth family, owners of Castle Crom. The show, staring Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders, was filmed in Fermanagh County, Northern Ireland, and began airing this month on BBC1. If PBS or BBC-A decide to offer it on this side of the pond, I'll be sure to let readers know.
Trailer for first episode of Blandings--"State of Emergency"
BBC has produced a new 6-part, period comedy for TV called Blandings, based on PG Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories. The half-hour episodes, set in 1929, features the follies of the aristocratic Emsworth family, owners of Castle Crom. The show, staring Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders, was filmed in Fermanagh County, Northern Ireland, and began airing this month on BBC1. If PBS or BBC-A decide to offer it on this side of the pond, I'll be sure to let readers know.
Trailer for first episode of Blandings--"State of Emergency"
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