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By Jove Carruthers (2009) BBC Radio (MP3 128kbps) dearleuk

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By Jove Carruthers 12-05-2009

Miles Jupp goes in search of the real Carruthers, the character who inspired a thousand silly quips and cod Edwardian accents. At least seven different Carruthers crop up in Edwardian boys' tales, but who exactly was he, what did he do, and how did he assume such a strange kind of posthumous fame?

Miles finds out about the Carruthers who appears in the Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist and the one which narrates Erskine Childers' 1903 spy novel The Riddle of the Sands


From The Radio Times

No self-respecting Boys'Own adventure would be without a square-jawed subaltern, saving the Empire for his Queen and class, and invariably called Carruthers. Miles Jupp embarks on his own perilous journey, beset with marauding swans and errant bicycles (just listen, it will all make sense) to find out who this character was actually based on. He comes up with some unexpected answers, not least of which is that he may well have been Scottish.

-- Frances Lass


Type : mpeg 1 layer III
Bitrate : 128
Mode : stereo
Frequency : 44100 Hz
Length : 00:27:53
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Source : iPlayer

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