Was Wodehouse in exile? We like Jeeves and Wooster, but we didn't know much about their author, PG Wodehouse. This is another of those superb 90-minute bio-dramas that BBC4 does so well. Tim Piggott-Smith gives a nuanced performance as the innocent, gullible writer who finds himself a propaganda puppet of the Nazis during WWII. Zoe Wanamaker is equally affecting as his more worldly wife, with Julian Rhind-Tutt and Flora Montgomery in strong support as Malcolm Muggeridge (then a Major with British Intelligence) and Wodehouse's adopted daughter Leonora. It's a sad story and one as much about the madness and indecency of war as about one decent man's fate.
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