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LOVE OF THE MIDLANDS; The P G Wodehouse Society (UK) is coming to Birmingham for the first ti me next Saturday. Ross Reyburn discovers the Wodehouse Midland Trail.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 19980711
Author:Reyburn, Ross

"Anywhere in Worcestershire or Shropshire" The words came from the great English humourist PG Wodehouse (1881-1975) shortly before he died, when he was asked where he would like to live if he returned to England from America.

"Those were the actual words in his last interview with the BBC," recalls NTP Murphy, chairman of the PG Wodehouse Society (UK).

The retired army officer has no doubts about the great debt Wodehouse owed the West Midlands as an inspiration for so many of the settings, names and stories in his novels,

Next Saturday Murphy journeys to Birmingham ...

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