Wodehouse was worried about Nazi cash: MI5
August 26, 2011  17:24

In other news: Author PG Wodehouse was worried about how much the Nazis would pay him for his radio broadcasts from wartime Germany, MI5 files have shown.

The bbc.co.uk report says he always maintained his humorous 1941 broadcasts of life in a German internment camp were to thank his fellow US prisoners for their support.

But files declassified by the National Archives show MI5 had serious doubts about the British writer's account. They said he was not always as "frank and ingenious as he pretends".  Read

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