The man who invented British comedy—trapped in a camp, hiding from himself.
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. This film 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.
Writing
Narrative peels layers off a deliberately blank life.
Production
Rare archive footage of Wodehouse speaking—ghostly and intimate.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Norman Murphy's Blandings theory claimed the castle was based on a real Shropshire estate—still debated among Wodehouse obsessives today.
Wodehouse's 1941 Berlin broadcasts—intended to reassure fans—nearly got him tried for treason; this documentary was among the first to address them squarely.
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