EGGS, BEANS AND CRUMPETS

There are several great Wodehouse narrators--Martin Jarvis and Edward Duke, for example--who can sound wry and silly and imperious and pompous as the characters biff on and off the stage. Jonathan Cecil is one of them. He has a twinkle in his voice as the characters blunder about. Bingo Little, for example, is a happy man, well-married and employed (some of the time). But like his close friend Bertie Wooster, Bingo is constantly stumbling into a net of coincidence and mistake, though in the end he usually emerges unscathed. D.R.W. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 02/ JAN 03]