Comic writing with Howard Jacobson, Alex Clark and Paul Murray

This week, we're cheering ourselves up with a podcast devoted to comic fiction. John Crace digests PG Wodehouse's Right Ho, Jeeves, Richard Lea talks to Paul Murray (on the 2010 shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize) about his novel, Skippy Dies, and Alex Clark and Howard Jacobson come into the studio to discuss the place of the comedy in British fiction. Reading list Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Solar by Ian McEwan Diamond Star Halo by Tiffany Murray One Day by David Nicholls From Aberystwyth with Love by Malcolm Pryce The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford Bilton by Andrew Martin Towards the End of Morning by Michael Frayn Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Maria Vargas Llosa Karoo by Steve Tesich