Wodehouse claimed to have intended the broadcasts as comic satire but unfortunately most of the British public and the establishment mistook it for collaboration with the Germans similar to the Lord Hawhaw broadcasts. And now the news:
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
On this day in 1881 the author P.G. Wodehouse was born. Wodehouse is best known as the author of the Blandings Castle and Jeeves novels, as well as very nearly ruining his career for good with a series of ill-advised broadcasts from Germany during World War II.
Wodehouse claimed to have intended the broadcasts as comic satire but unfortunately most of the British public and the establishment mistook it for collaboration with the Germans similar to the Lord Hawhaw broadcasts. And now the news:
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Wodehouse claimed to have intended the broadcasts as comic satire but unfortunately most of the British public and the establishment mistook it for collaboration with the Germans similar to the Lord Hawhaw broadcasts. And now the news:
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