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The work of P.G. Wodehouse is immortal, but he was guilty of a moral lapse

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From: The Spectator
Date: 20040918
Author:Glover, Stephen

The debate about P.G. Wodehouse's wartime radio broadcasts from Nazi Germany has been raging for more than 60 years. It is re-ignited by Robert McCrum's admirable new biography of the great writer. Most reviewers have taken the line that 'Plum's' talks were inconsequential. Though sympathetic to his subject, Mr McCrum is a little sterner. 'His behaviour,' he writes of Wodehouse, 'was incredibly stupid, but it was not treacherous.'

What business is it of a media column to re-enter these difficult waters? My excuse is that Wodehouse was almost destroyed by a journalist, and he has over the ...

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