PG Wodehouse - Plum - Bookmark - BBC Documentary - 1989
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Published 2014-12-10
P.G. Wodehouse , perhaps best known and best loved of English comic novelists, is still something of a mystery. Affable and accessible to journalists, he was cripplingly shy and remained inscrutable about his private life.
Bookmark traces his career, from an Edwardian middle class family to his experiences in a German internment camp, with the help of Tom Sharpe , Barrie Pitt , Lady Frances Donaldson , Sir Edward Cazalet and Lt Col Norman Murphy , a Wodehouse scholar who claims to have discovered the origins of Blandings Castle. Film editor JEFF SHAW
Producer NIGEL WILLIAMS
('Wodehouse on Broadway' tomorrow at 4.30pm)
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Contributors
Unknown: P.G. Wodehouse
Unknown: Tom Sharpe
Unknown: Barrie Pitt
Unknown: Frances Donaldson
Unknown: Edward Cazalet
Unknown: Lt Col Norman Murphy
Producer: Nigel Williams
All Comments (21)
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A genius. I rejoice in re-reading his works endlessly. Even though I know what's on the next page, the humour still hits the spot. I have often made a fool of myself on a train or on a plane, by laughing out loud to myself (much to the annoyance of my wife!). Thank you Plum.
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God bless ole Plum. He got me through the death of my father, the death of my mother, and some other the hardest times I've ever faced.
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It was the Central State Library Sector 17, Chandigarh, 1998, I was a wee lad of but 16, I looked at the Wodehouse book and it looked right back at me and the rest as they say, is history.
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"but not Plum, Plum was one of us.." That tells you all that you need to know about him. He was the "master" but was yet humble and "one of us." Great man.
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Oh, what a bitter joy and a wistfu happiness!.. From now on his books will wrap me in most humorous sadness. Tremendously grateful. Ah...
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My absolute favorite writer of humor - although there are many other fine ones - he is the best. Mahalo from the big island of Hawaii.
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Two great English men- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Sir P G Wodehouse. The former made us think a bit & the latter laugh a bit, for ever. They were friends too.
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It is as if his answer to the final question at the very end of this documentary was an astounding "No". It's clear he felt an affinity with New York and the easiness of spirit it provided him. A true gentleman and brilliant writer without a doubt.
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What a wonderful mind, clarity and joyous yet memorably alone, lonely almost melancholic still nothing like it, one could only call it splendour of insight into human condition , one his own !
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England's greatest writer.
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I've never been able to understand Duff Cooper's vicious persecution of Plum. I've read Cooper's diaries, his correspondence, Diana Cooper's letters... Their reaction when they found Plum was staying at the same hotel as they... I can't find a reason for Cooper's obtuseness
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If you ever try reading the stuff that he broadcast you will realize that it was very funny and at the same time cleverly satirizing the German's attitude. Nothing naive about it in fact it was really the Germans who were naive and didn't understand that the things he said was lampooning and undermining them.
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My Man Wodehouse My favorite author.
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His dachshund shown near the end of this film looks very much like mine. His name is Oscar. I admire not only his writing but his love and loyalty to his dogs.
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great doco! and the man doing the book readings is just fantastic
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Johnny really looks great and loved all the pampering. He did well with getting his photos taken so don't blame him for wanting a wee bit of fun! He and Faya looked just right together. For tomorrow (9th May) please give 👑Uniek lots of cuddles and treats for her birthday 🎂 she deserves it! 😍💕🐎
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The Colonel chap looks as if Wodehouse invented him!
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Fine, but I'd say two things: P G Wodehouse must be read; any adaptation for any other medium is to eviscerate his power utterly. Secondly, Jeeves is NOT, repeat NOT, a butler.
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Isn’t that Richard Griffiths narrating Wodehouse’s writings?? Uncle Monty!
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Thanks you for posting, I was unfamiliar with him but I will now read some of his work
