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The Classic Tales Podcast

Ep. 1121, Jeeves and the Impending Doom, by P.G. Wodehouse

The Classic Tales Podcast

B.J. Harrison

Books, Fiction, Arts

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Can Bertie save Bingo Little from the scandalous results of his own negligence? P.G. Wodehouse, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.

 

Welcome to The Classic Tales Podcast, where an audiobook format gives you an immersive experience in classic literature. You can get friendlier with the classics you know, and discover new favorites. I'm your host BJ Harrison.  I'm glad you could join us.

 

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Now for our Word for the Week, by Ambrose Bierce. In this segment, we hear from the Devil's Lexicographer himself, as he delivers one of his caustic definitions.

 

The Word for the Week is Language, and here to read it is Ambrose Bierce himself:

 

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

 

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And now for something completely different.

 

Happy days are here again. A new volume of Jeeves stories has just hit the public domain in the US. So, sit back, relax, and listen to a story featuring our favorite man servant, Jeeves.

 

And now, Jeeves and the Impending Doom, by P.G. Wodehouse

 

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0:00.0

Can Bertie save Bingo Little from the scandalous results of his own negligence?

0:06.9

P.G. Woodhouse, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

0:36.1

Music Welcome to the Classic Tales podcast, where an audiobook format gives you an immersive experience in classic literature.

0:40.5

You can get friendlier with the classics you know and discover new favorites.

0:44.5

I'm your host, B.J. Harrison. I'm glad you could join us.

0:54.6

With the audiobook library card, you gain access to everything I've personally curated from the public domain and recorded over the past 18 years.

1:00.0

Thousands of hours of classic audiobooks personally curated and performed.

1:04.8

Many of won awards and gained acclaim from critics and listeners alike.

1:14.2

Subscribe to the audiobook library card for $9.99 a month and get access to it all. Download and listen all you like. No limits. It's the best audiobook deal on the internet. Go to audiobook library card.com or follow the

1:21.6

link in the show notes and download and listen to your heart's content. Now for our Word of the Week by Ambrose Beers.

1:30.4

In this segment, we hear from the devil's lexicographer himself,

1:34.5

as he delivers one of his caustic definitions.

1:38.1

The word for the week is language,

1:41.0

and here to read it is Ambrose Beers himself.

1:49.0

Language, noun. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. Thank you, Mr. Beers. And now for something

1:56.0

completely different. Happy days are here again. A new volume of Jeeves stories has just hit the public domain

2:03.4

in the U.S. So sit back, relax, and listen to a story featuring our favorite man-servant,

2:10.2

Jeeves. And now, Jeeves and the Impending Doom by P.G. Woodhouse.

2:17.0

Music Jeeves and the Impending Doom by P.G. Woodhouse.

2:25.3

Jeeves and the Impending Doom It was the morning of the day on which I was slated to pop down to my Aunt Agatha's place at Wollum, Jersey, in the County of Hearts,

2:35.9

for a visit of three solid weeks. And, as I seated myself with the breakfast table,

2:43.0

I don't mind confessing that the heart was singularly heavy. We wuster's a men of iron,

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