Wodehouse In Exile - BBC4 Comedy Drama - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
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Episodes
1
Stars
Tim Pigott-Smith, Zoë Wanamaker, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Paul Ritter, Flora Montgomery, Ian McElhinney, Richard Dormer, Conor Mullen and more
Writer
Director
Producers
Kate Triggs, Robert Cooper and Stephen Wright
Company
The intimate story of PG Wodehouse's fall from grace and how the man who defined Englishness became an exile from his own country.
Wodehouse In Exile tells the story of how, in the summer of 1941, PG Wodehouse, the master of fanciful plots became a major player in a tale of realpolitik. From an internment camp in Upper Silesia to broadcasting on German radio in Berlin and accusations of treachery, Wodehouse became a pawn in the biggest propaganda battle of the Second World War as the German Foreign Office tried to persuade the Americans to stay out of the war on the eve of Operation Barbarossa and the British to persuade America to join the Allies and save a beleaguered nation.
Wodehouse In Exile is written by Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning writer, Nigel Williams.
Additional details
Also known as
- An Innocent Abroad (Working title)
Production
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Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour
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Broadcast details
First broadcast
Monday 25th March 2013 at 9pm on BBC Four
Episode length
85 minutes
Recording details
Northern Ireland - Filmed on location