Event 38 | Robert McCrum | An Evening of PG Wodehouse

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2025 sees the celebration of fifty years since the death of PG Wodehouse in American exile, on St Valentine’s Day, 1975. Today, the creator of Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, and Lord Emsworth holds an unrivalled position as Britain’s greatest comic writer. To mark this milestone, BridLit has invited Robert McCrum, to join Jason Webster in conversation. McCrum, the author of Wodehouse: A Life (2004), an acclaimed biography, will place PG Wodehouse in his late Victorian context, celebrate his brilliant style and examine the ‘truth about his wartime Broadcasts’.

in conversation with Jason Webster.

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