Great Lives - PG Wodehouse

GREAT LIVES SERIES 43 - 2. STEPHEN FRY ON PG WODEHOUSE (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 28th October 2021

Stephen Fry nominates his hero P.G Wodehouse, a writer who he says simply cheers him up like no one else.
Fry wrote to his hero when he was a schoolboy and his most treasured possession is a signed photograph which reads: "To Stephen Fry, All the best, P. G. Wodehouse."

P.G Wodehouse was a self-made man, he began as a bank clerk, married a chorus girl and was interned by the Nazis. He wrote some of the most entertaining novels, stories, plays and lyrics of the twentieth century and created enduring characters; the most popular being Reginald Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.
Stephen Fry makes the case for why P.G Wodehouse is a great life.

To help him he is joined by Dr Sophie Ratcliffe Associate Professor in English, University of Oxford and author of 'PG Wodehouse - A life in Letters'.

The presenter is Matthew Parris and the producer is Perminder Khatkar.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.