Role: Original music scoreDir: Ian Denyer Production Company: Paladin InVision Broadcaster: BBC 2, International
The story of lyricist and writer P.G. Wodehouse, from his days on Broadway through to his wartime years in an internment camp in Germany which led to accusations of treachery. With contributions from Robert McCrum and David Jasen, both of whom have written biographies of Wodehouse; actress Olivia Williams; writer John Mortimer; Broadway historian Lee Davis; lyricist Tim Rice; Jacqueline Powell (secretary to Wodehouse's wife); Sir Edward Cazalet (Wodehouse's grandson); Patrick Wodehouse (nephew); Barrie Pitt and Bob Whitby, both wartime internees with Wodehouse; journalist Michael Vermehren; publisher Peter Schwed, Hal Cazalet (great grandson of Wodehouse, who sings some of Wodehouse's songs) and archival interview footage of Wodehouse from 1958 and 1971.