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Wodehouse interview

P. G. Wodehouse was one of the great comic writers of our century. He created the world of Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves — a world of idle young men, butlers, English milords who kept prize pigs . and innocent young women. As well as producing nearly 100 books in his lifetime — he died in 1975 aged 94 — Wodehouse also wrote lyrics for musicals. The 8.8. C. books programme, on the radio Concert Programme at 7 o’clock tonight, contains part of an interview with Wodehouse recorded in 1971 when he was 90. The books looked at include “Wodehouse on Wodehouse,” biographies by Joseph Connolly and Benny Green and Richard Usborne's “A Wodehouse Companion.” Usborne, a writer who knew Wodehouse, is interviewed.

During the last war, many great art treasures and manuscripts were evacuated from Berlin and dispersed in the German countryside. After the war, most were retrieved, but some went missing, including important music manuscripts by such great composers as jjjozart, Beethoven and Bach. The search for these manuscripts and how they, were eventu-

ally located is set out in the book "Paperchase” by Nigel Lewis. The book reads like a detective story, as the author describes on the programme. ‘The Moonstone’ Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins has been called “The Father of the Detective Story.” His first novel, “The Woman in White,” in 1860 established his mastery of suspense. In “The Moonstone” in 1868 he wrote a book that ranks as the first detective novel with its tale of the enormous Indian diamond whose possession

seemed to carry mysterious peril. The Wilkie Collins’ classic, “The Moonstone,” has been dramatised in six parts for radio by the 8.8. C. Episode three is broadcast at 7.30 tonight on the National Programme. Nigeria “Nigeria: Twenty Years After” is the subject in the Concert Programme’s series (8.30 tonight) drawn from CBC extended broadcasts for an Africa Week in 1980.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19820302.2.73.6

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Press, 2 March 1982, Page 17

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317

Wodehouse interview Press, 2 March 1982, Page 17

Wodehouse interview Press, 2 March 1982, Page 17

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