PG Wodehouse - Plum - Bookmark - BBC Documentary - 1989

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Plum - A Portrait of of the life of P.G. Wodehouse.
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)
0 DOCUMENTARY: page 18
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

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@harri2626 3 года назад

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.

@zigzzagz5732 9 лет назад

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.

@solcutta3661 2 года назад

Ah yes the death of ones parents..raw raw times

@dorianphilotheates3769 2 года назад

Reading Wodehouse is always a pleasure; and it is a great solace in hard times. We’ve lost loved ones in the past year - very difficult...My belated condolences to you.

@irenafeshenko1965 8 лет назад

Oh, what a bitter joy and a wistfu happiness!.. From now on his books will wrap me in most humorous sadness. Tremendously grateful. Ah...

@vikramarora9292 4 года назад

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.

@aucourant9998 4 года назад

England's greatest writer.

@streb6 5 лет назад

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 !

@maxwilson4748 8 лет назад

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.

@bobreda676 7 лет назад

My absolute favorite writer of humor - although there are many other fine ones - he is the best. Mahalo from the big island of Hawaii.

@helenwheels3341 3 года назад

Aloha

@solcutta3661 2 года назад

Never read any..seen Jeeves n woster on tv

@mohanmathews9908 8 лет назад

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.

@martinsmith500 7 лет назад

Conan Doyle was born in Scotland of Irish roots

@thisissayantan_ 7 лет назад

And Oscar Wilde made us live a bit.

@shaunewilliam 6 лет назад

Two Great Brits.

@anuradhainamdar8967 3 года назад

I entirely agree, the laughter he provokes is genuine and spontaneous.

@mattwestcigarreviews 5 лет назад

"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.

@nohaylamujer 3 года назад

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

@deimossoulcrush13 5 лет назад

My Man Wodehouse My favorite author.

@johnkiefer4623 4 года назад

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.

@2011littlejohn1 8 лет назад

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.

@bhuvidya 7 лет назад

great doco! and the man doing the book readings is just fantastic

@jeanlogan4080 2 года назад

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! 😍💕🐎

@TodayFreedom 2 года назад

Isn’t that Richard Griffiths narrating Wodehouse’s writings?? Uncle Monty!

@neil5568 2 года назад

The Colonel chap looks as if Wodehouse invented him!

@crzxr 6 лет назад

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.

@legolasdbk 6 лет назад

i concur, with an addendum: excelent audiobooks are available of his works, read very masterfully by, amongst others, Ian Meredith. Perfect for walks...

@elizabethw9633 5 лет назад

I agreed, but have recently discovered Jonathan Cecil's audio books. His voice characterisations, timing etc are pitch perfect. Listening to his reading is even better than reading the printed page. But the problem with screen adaptation is that is cuts out some of the magnificent writing.

@anthonygibbons4688 4 года назад

Jeeves IS, repeat IS a valet, or a gentleman's personal gentleman.

@peterjongsma2754 4 года назад

@@anthonygibbons4688 A Butler by any other name?

@oliomphalos3657 4 года назад

@@elizabethw9633 Yes! Jonathan Cecil was born to narrate Wodehouse's novels!

@08CARIB 7 лет назад

Thanks you for posting, I was unfamiliar with him but I will now read some of his work

@eunicestone838 2 года назад

,read it all. He's wonderful.

@mark-j-adderley 6 лет назад

German philosophy during The (other) War: “What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is negotiable.” Not much, if anything, has changed since.

@meusha846 2 года назад

The British phiosophy during and war and peace of course is: "whatever is yours is mine; I am doing you a favor by invading your country and ruling you, so thank us!"

@benbisley 5 лет назад

I love the story Honeysuckle Cottage: I laugh out loud whenever I read it.

@user-di2er6cw2j 3 года назад

Oh, I adore it, too!!

@evanhadkins5532 3 года назад

My favourite is probably Goodbye to All Cats

@Rohilla313 2 года назад

Amazing story!

@RobertSeviour1 7 лет назад

Despite the vintage quality of this footage, it is enthralling to learn something of PGW's life and to hear in what high regard he was held by the most eminent of his day. Strangely there is one other writer who both in his background, manner and writings in many ways paralleled PGW, Raymond Chandler. Who is there today able to match the quality of either of these two masters? Suggestions welcome.

@JB--- 6 лет назад

I have loved every Wodehouse book I've read. His humor was so warm and subtle and fun...and he created a wonderful fictional world for his characters to live in. It's always a great escape from the here and now!

@degsbabe 9 лет назад

Good documentary. Shame he never got back to England after the war. I think he suffered from some naivety as regards his war time broadcasts. Theres another great film called 'Wodehouse in Exile' which further explains what happened.

@MatthewMcVeagh 9 лет назад

Mithrandir Naivety, but he wasn't a traitor. I'm not particularly into Wodehouse, I don't particularly like his class background which he wrote mostly about, but he was a skilled writer and humorist and it does seem how he was treated during the war on account of these broadcasts was unfair. He seems to have always been a bit fish out of water and not really understanding of social surroundings or the political/power implications of things, and his attitude to being interned by the Germans shows this. It seems in time of war there's no room for honest naivety, everything has to be interpreted in black or white as an allegiance or witting motivation.

@OldCroghanMan 8 лет назад

I don't know if he was so naive about the war . . . Living with Germans, technically their prisoner, his experience of them was very different than that created by British propaganda. As such his broadcasts reflected that. The contradiction he presented meant he had to be demonized with the enemy, and so British Intelligence and their accomplices in the media went about doing that.

@yanikkunitsin1466 2 года назад

8:55 - I too want some yellow ones... on the side of course

@kennarajora6532 2 года назад

funniest author I've ever read.

@jtpinnyc 8 лет назад

1:15 - is that Elspeth Ballantyne aka Meg from Prisoner he's watching on TV? Obviously before PCBH, but it certainly looks like her.

@StevenTorrey 7 лет назад

Interesting!

@VictoriaAlfredSmythe 3 года назад

Goodbye Fresh

@evanhadkins5532 3 года назад

re autobiographical elements. The Theosophists come in for some stick, his brother was involved with them.

@regent260 5 лет назад

Wonderful! Anyone have any idea what that wistful piece of piano music is?

@mariej2328 3 года назад

Une barque sur l'océan by Ravel

@johnmcclellan9020 3 года назад

Wodehouse didn't know how evil the Nazis were at the time. He should never have given the talks over the radio because it was a form of cooperation.

@JK-pu8jt 3 года назад

Or... maybe he knew them better than we do, better than we who have been relentlessly propagandized with the victors' portrayal of them for the last almost eight decades now.

@HooDatDonDar 2 года назад

You people lost the war. Get over it. Go back to haunting war videos. Plum later said he ought to have seen it was a loony thing to do to use the German radio for any reason.

@videocurios 9 лет назад

@saxoungrammaticus9132 9 лет назад

Great Reaction: 48:32

@spensert4933 2 года назад

Newts!

@sailendrayalamanchili4126 3 года назад

War causes man to behave in a savage manner, and hating the enemy becomes a patriotic duty. Wodehouse was incapable of hating an entire nation. When asked, if he did not hate Germans, he stated that while he might dislike a particular German, he could not hate all Germans.

@HooDatDonDar 2 года назад

The creator of Roderick Spode could have no use for Spode’s sort of people.

@marclayne9261 5 лет назад

I always love the views and attitudes of our ancestors...not ruined by the howling left wing PC mob....of 2019 Britain......They too will pass into dustbin of history....