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From: The Spectator
Date: 20040904
Author:Vestey, Michael

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You might think that there was little more to say about the life of P.G. Wodehouse; he has, after all, been extensively written about over the years, his revealing and delightful diaries have been broadcast, and there was even a play about his controversial wartime internment in Germany on Radio Four a few years ago. For the past five years, though, Robert McCrum has been working on what must be the definitive biography, Wodehouse: A Life, and, with extracts read by Robert Daws, it has been this week's very entertaining Book of the Week on Radio Four.

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