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How to Be an Internee With No Previous Experience

MI5 questions PG Wodehouse about his controversial wartime broadcasts. By Colin Shindler, stars Tim McInnerny, Alex Jennings and Anton Lesser.

How to Be an Internee With No Previous Experience
by Colin Shindler

In 1944, PG Wodehouse, the creator of Jeeves and Wooster, was questioned by MI5 after broadcasting to America from a German internment camp. One of the interrogators was an up and coming journalist called Malcolm Muggeridge. The other was Major EJP Cussen, who later became a high court judge. The stakes were high: one of Britain's best loved authors was facing the possibility of the death penalty.

Wodehouse - Tim McInnerny
Muggeridge - Alex Jennings
Cussen - Anton Lesser
Connor - Stephen Critchlow
Flannery - Gunnar Cauthery

Producer/Director Peter Leslie Wild.

45 minutes

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Mon 10 Apr 201721:15
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ProducerPeter Leslie Wild

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