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Plum On Target (or Wodehouse: A Life)

Started by 12 years, 11 months old, September 05, 2004, 05:10:41 PM

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Some things which may be of interest...

A new book:


Quote from: "of which Stephen Fry"The facts, briefly, are these: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (two unremarkable British Prime Ministers in one name) was born in 1881 and died in 1975. In that time he edited a newspaper column, collaborated on Broadway musicals with, among others, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and George Gershwin, adapted straight plays, wrote hundreds of short stories and gave the world more than 90 books whose charm, verbal brilliance and completeness of tone, characterisation and plotting earned him an Oxford doctorate, a knighthood and an unassailable reputation as the greatest comic novelist of the 20th century. The word 'reputation', of course, does not begin to describe the adoration, admiration, addiction and deep, deep affection in which the works, and therefore the man, have been held by so many around the world.

....and so on, in an article in today's Observer

And tomorrow, on BBC4:

Quote from: "BBC4"Monday 6 September
PG Wodehouse: The Long Exile
PG Wodehouse is widely regarded as one of this country's finest comic authors, best known as the creator of Jeeves, Bertie Wooster and Lord Elmsworth.

When the outbreak of the Second World War trapped him in France, Wodehouse was interned and became embroiled in a controversial incident that would send this quintessential Englishman into exile amid allegations of treachery.

This programme tells the definitive life story of this literary giant and, with previously unseen footage and official documents that have remained secret for fifty years, lays bare the real story of Wodehouse and the Nazis.

So concludes the information. Wodehouse, then: discuss, watch or read (or ignore).

Jemble Fred

The BBC4 docco is quite nice – it was on Christmas 2002, I recall.

[usual Jemble whine]If Fry's still got time to think about Wodehouse, why doesn't he get round to finishing off the Jeeves oeuvre with Hugh?[/usual Jemble whine]