Six delightfully diversionary tales from an English master of comedy. Mr Mulliner, with all the known veracity of a fisherman, holds forth with some of the most diverting of P.G Wodehouse`s stories. These six dramatisations star Richard Griffiths as Mr Mulliner, with a multitude of performances by Matilda Ziegler, David Timson, Martin Hyder, Peter Acre, Tom George and Carl Prekopp. Mr Mulliner’s arrival at the bar of the Angler’s Rest public house invariably sets off a sly story - of a potion which turns a mild curate into a tiger of a man, of a cottage haunted by the syrupy spirit of a romantic novelist, or of a suitor rejected in love who becomes an idol of the silent screen. Partly recorded on location at one of London’s most celebrated - and hidden - public houses, Ye Olde Mitre (est. 1546), Roger Davenport’s dramatisations ingeniously transform the regulars of the tavern into the characters of the stories. Mr Mulliner’s fellow drinkers, known to us by their tipples - A Pint of Stout, A Port, A Light Ale and A Small Bitter - step comfortably from the bar-parlour of the Angler’s Rest into the fantastical narratives to become the young suitors, the clergymen, and the sporty animal rights activists of the 1920s. And the barmaid, Miss Postlethwaite, moves from behind the bar to become the ingenues of all the tales.
