He later enters his prize sow, the Empress of Blandings, who wins the coveted Fat Pigs contest several years in a row.
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Some of the many characters who are named after places in the vicinity of Emsworth include Lord Emsworth's heir, Viscount Bosham, Lady Anne Warblington, Lord Stockheath, the Duchess of Havant (in A Gentleman of Leisure), and Lord Arthur Hayling (in The Prince and Betty).
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In "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", by P.G. Wodehouse the Empress of Blandings misses her first keeper, Wellbeloved, when he is sent to jail for a spell; her pining is worrisome to her owner (Lord Emsworth), with the big show approaching, until she is pepped up by James Belford's hog calling techniques, returning to her trough with enough gusto to take her first silver medal.
Although the main character is Psmith (here called Ronald Eustace rather than Rupert as in previous books), the bulk of the story takes place at Blandings Castle and involves various intrigues within the extended family of Lord Emsworth, the absent-minded elderly Earl.
Part of the Blandings Castle canon, it features the absent-minded peer Lord Emsworth, and was included in the collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935), although the story takes place sometime between the events of Leave it to Psmith (1923) and Summer Lightning (1929).
Graduate of an Agricultural College, Amazonian Miss Simmons tends her charge well in Pigs Have Wings, and returns to the post in Galahad at Blandings, only to elope at the end with a nephew of Lord Emsworth.
Like Professor Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes books, Parsloe-Parsloe is the chief villain in Lord Emsworth's life, having first sustained a bitter rivalry in the raising of pumpkins for the Shrewsbury Show.
In 1985, it was adapted as the fifth episode of the "Blandings" radio program, starring Richard Vernon as Lord Emsworth and Margot Boyd as Lady Constance.
In 1985, the story was adapted as the third episode of the BBC Radio 4 series Blandings, starring Richard Vernon as Lord Emsworth and Margot Boyd as Lady Constance.
In 1985, the story was adapted into the final two episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series Blandings, starring Richard Vernon as Lord Emsworth and Margot Boyd and Lady Constance.
They starred Ralph Richardson as Lord Emsworth and Stanley Holloway as Beach; this one, retitled "The Great Pumpkin Crisis", had Derek Nimmo as Freddie.