PG Wodehouse
First broadcast: 26 October 1958
Starting with footage of PG Wodehouse at home in the Hamptons on New York’s Long Island, this interview shows the author at his genial and self-deprecating best. Wodehouse cheerfully discusses his long writing career, his eschewal of ‘serious’ fiction and the lack of sex in his books.
via BBC One – Monitor, 26/10/1958, PG Wodehouse
What Ho!
During a recent rummage through the BBC website for a dash of Wodehouse related light-relief, I happened across this interview with the author himself. It also includes footage of Wodehouse at home on Long Island. In the interview, Wodehouse answers questions about the Berlin Broadcasts, and the absence of sex in his stories.
These remain topics of interest and speculation among Wodehouse readers today, so it’s well worth listening to Wodehouse’s own thoughts on the subject.
Happy viewing!
HP
Plumtopia 
Alas, the clip is not available in my location – ironic, as I live a mere 80 miles from Remsenburg. If I jumped in the car now, I could be there well before lunch. Instead, I console myself with this article from a local newspaper: http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Remsenburg/420941/The-Wodehouse-Memory-Lives-On.
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Sorry about that interview not working– but thanks so much for the link.
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“What should I say? What’s the word?” — So interesting to hear him say that out loud. When one is accustomed to reading perfect word placed after perfect word, one forgets that the vast majority were likely preceded by a “What should I say? What’s the word?”
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Yes! And I loved his almost boyish enthusiasm for his work. He clearly loved to write.
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