Some of these are substantial interviews, others merely quote Wodehouse briefly. I have indicated those that have appeared in McIlvaine; as far as I can tell, the others haven’t, though McCrum’s biography quotes at least one of them.
Please e-mail me at awrobins@yahoo.com if you have any additions or corrections, or if you want further information on any of these.
The American Legion Weekly
“An English Master of Yankee Slang,” 24 October 1919, p. 21.
The Argus (Melbourne)
“Top-Hole” English (article/interview about silly asses, eggs, crumpets, and piefaces) 28 March 1925, p. 9.
Australian Women’s Magazine
“Wodehouse - humorist who made a fool of himself,” 11 March 1950, p. 13.
Captain
“Impressions of P. G. Wodehouse,” by Leslie Havergal Bradshaw. Captain 22 (March 1910) 500–501. (McIlvaine H130)
Cleveland Leader
“Reformed Column Conductor and Architect Go ‘Fifty-Fifty,’ ” Cleveland Leader, June 24, 1917.
Daily Express
“No, We Won’t Go Home Unless We Are Welcome,” Daily Express (London) 4 July 1955 p. 4. (McIlvaine H255)
Daily Mail
“Creator of ‘Jeeves’ Plays Golf with Jeeves,” Daily Mail, February 19, 1925, p. 5.
“P. G. Wodehouse Reveals How His Gaily Comic Stories Are Written,” Daily Mail, April 10, 1928, p. 7. (signed P.M.)
“Mr. Wodehouse’s Film Deal,” Daily Mail, April 30, 1928, p. 11.
“Mr. Wodehouse Gets His Ideas in the Bath,” Daily Mail, June 12, 1928, p. 13.
“£20,000 but Little Work,” Daily Mail, June 10, 1931, p. 12.
Lewis, Peter. “87 Today,” Daily Mail, 15 October 1968, p. 8.
Daily Mirror
“Why Hollywood Blacklisted P. G. Wodehouse,” Daily Mirror, Nov. 4, 1931, p. 2.
Daily Telegraph
“Mr. P. G. Wodehouse Coming Home,” Daily Telegraph, 24 Oct. 1932, p. 12.
“Mr. Wodehouse Replies,” Daily Telegraph, 11 Aug. 1941, p. 5.
“P. G. Wodehouse—Case Likely to Be Dropped,” Daily Telegraph, 24 Nov. 1944, p. 6.
Esquire
“Checking In with P. G. Wodehouse,” Esquire 81 (May 1974) 98–99, 202, 204, 208, 210–211. (McIlvaine H137)
Evening Despatch [Birmingham, England]
“Humorist’s Bath of Inspiration,” Evening Despatch, 11 March 1927 (signed W.H.B.)
Evening Standard [London]
Webber, Evelyn. “No Place Now for Jeeves in Britain,” Evening Standard, May 6, 1949, p. 3.
“People don’t like me any more, says the lonely P. G.,” Evening Standard, June 15, 1960, p. 7.
“The pig that said: ‘Happy birthday’,” Evening Standard, Oct. 16, 1971, p. 5.
Guardian
Cooke, Alistair. “The Hermit of Remsenburg,” Guardian, 13 Oct. 1961, p. 5. (McIlvaine H139) (revised version of this published as “Wodehouse at Eighty” in Cooke’s 1999 book Memories of the Great and the Good, pp. 41–52)
Usborne, Richard. “The World of Wodehouse,” Guardian, 11 Aug. 1971, p. 8. (McIlvaine H236)
Illustrated
“‘I’ve Been a Silly Ass.’” Illustrated, 7 Dec. 1946 (?) p. 9. (McIlvaine D95.2) This has been reprinted in the Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 5 April 1947 (and part of the first page is reprinted in Ratcliffe’s P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters).
Illustrated London News
“P. G. Wodehouse at Home,” Illustrated London News no. 6895 (Feb. 24, 1973) 39–40.
Kansas City Kansan
“Author Is Homesick,” Kansas City Kansan, Mar. 21, 1921.
Kansas City Star
“Tickling Two Nations by Touching Typewriter Keys,” Kansas City Star, Oct. 19, 1919, p. 20.
Lincolnshire Echo
“Mr. Wodehouse on ‘Psmith,’ and Others,” by W. Crawford Snowden. Lincolnshire Echo (Lincoln, UK), July 17, 1933, p. 4.
Listener
“Of Aunts and Drones: P. G. Wodehouse Talks to Robert Robinson,” Listener 92 (17 Oct. 1974) 496. (McIlvaine D103.1 and H210)
Los Angeles Times
“P. G. Airs View on Hollywood,” July 13, 1930, p. B7. (interview)
“Wodehouse Out and Still Dazed,” June 7, 1931, p. C9. (interview)
“Wodehouse, 87, Co-Authors Musical,” June 5, 1968, p. E17.
“Wodehouse Turns 90—Without Any Butler,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 17, 1971, p. H9.
(Apparently a reprint; an abridged version of this had appeared in Spartansburg Herald-Journal, Oct. 10, 1971)
Manchester Evening News
“15 Men to Write One Film Dialogue: Mr. Wodehouse’s Weird Story,” Manchester Evening News, Nov. 3, 1931, p. 5. (found by Ananth Kaitharam)
Miami Herald
“England’s Extremity,” Miami Herald, Sep. 20, 1918, p. 7.
[New York] Daily News and Sunday News
Crafton, Jean. “Wodehouse Still Has His Wit about Him,” [New York] Sunday News, Sep. 24, 1972, III.1 and 11.
“Chaplin & Wodehouse Knighted by the Queen,” Daily News, Jan. 2, 1975.
[New York] Evening World
“Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Novelist, Praises American Slang,” [scanned image] by Roger Batchelder, March 23, 1922, p. 3. (found by Ananth Kaitharam) This title appeared above a “ten-second movie” of eight frames of small photos of PGW. The headline on the article itself is “Cheerio! American Slang Is Far Better Than England’s; Mr. Wodehouse, Past Master of It in His Stories, Says So,” This article was widely syndicated to other newspapers, e.g. Hanover, Pennsylvania Evening Sun, April 1, 1922, p. 7. [Text transcription with illustration on this site]
New York Herald Tribune
“Dr. Carrel Says Writing Is Hard, Thinking Easy,” New York Herald Tribune, Sep. 29, 1936, p. 23.
Russell, Ned. “P. G. Wodehouse Calls His Talks on Nazi Radio ‘Terrible’ Error,” New York Herald Tribune, Sep. 1, 1944, pp. 1, 6.
Wald, Richard C. “Old Ghosts and P. G. Wodehouse,” New York Herald Tribune, Jul. 18, 1961, pp. 1, 19.
Ross, Don. “Jeeves’ Friend and Master at 80,” New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 15, 1961, E1, E3, E15. (McIlvaine H212)
[New York] Morning Telegraph
[Title unknown] Morning Telegraph, Apr. 24, 1965. (incomplete article found in the New York Public Library’s Wodehouse clipping file, commenting on Ian Carmichael)
New York Post
“Jeeves Gets Into Trouble—Bertie’s Trouble Is He Isn’t,” (probably from the New York Post in 1937, but date uncertain; incomplete article found in the New York Public Library’s Wodehouse clipping file)
Topor, Tom. “Wodehouse at 90 – & Still Going Strong,” New York Post, Oct. 14, 1971, pp. 3 and 74.
“Butler Did It for Wodehouse,” New York Post, Jan. 2, 1975. p. 24.
[New York] Sun
“Wodehouse, an American Humorist out of England,” [scanned image] Apr. 29, 1916, p. 8. (found by Ananth Kaitharam) [Text transcription on this site]
New York Times
“War Will Restore England's Sense of Humor,” [scanned image] New York Times Magazine, Nov. 7, 1915, p. 13. [Text transcription with illustration on this site]
“Humorist to Do Films,” June 1, 1930, p. X4.
“Wodehouse Marvels at Hollywood Method,” June 9, 1931, p. 36.
“Wodehouse Declines Role,” June 16, 1931, p. 33.
“P. G. Wodehouse Says Farewell,” Aug. 7, 1932, p. X3.
“Jeeves’s Mr. Wodehouse to Receive Oxford Honor,” May 25, 1939, p. 27.
“Doctor Wodehouse? ‘Precisely, Sir.’” New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 25, 1939, pp. 6, 17.
“Wodehouse Works on New Book in ‘Padded Cell’ at German Camp,” Dec. 27, 1940, p. 3
“Wodehouse Is Freed from Internment Camp; Germans Permit Weekly Broadcasts to U.S.,” June 26, 1941, p. 3
“Wodehouse Denies Helping Germans,” Sep. 1, 1944, p. 4. (refers to “an interview with a London Daily Sketch correspondent, J. Darcy Dawson”)
“Wodehouse Here, Admits Mistake,” April 27, 1947, p. 45.
“Wodehouse at 73 Mulls New Book,” July 15, 1955. p. 44.
“Oh, I Say, Sir, It Can’t Be the Eightieth,” New York Times Book Review, Oct. 15, 1961, pp. 4–5, 36. (McIlvaine H198)
“Pets Find Author Is a Soft Touch,” July 17, 1966, p. 40.
“At 88, P. G. Wodehouse Is Serving New Readers,” July 17, 1969. P. 56.
“On L.I., Wodehouse Does Without a Jeeves,” June 6, 1971, p. BQ79, 104.
“Notes on People,” Oct. 16, 1971, p. 37.
“P. G. Wodehouse, Imported Knight,” Jan. 12, 1975, p. 82.
“P. G. Wodehouse Is Dead on L.I. at 93; Creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster,” Feb. 15, 1975, p. 1, 32.
New York Tribune
“P. G. Wodehouse on the Gilbertian Tradition,” [scanned image] Sunday, Jan. 12, 1919, p. 4. [Text transcription on this site]
New York World-Telegram and Sun
“Wodehouse Sighs for Old Days,” Apr. 8, 1960
New Yorker
“Plummie” (in “The Talk of the Town,” by Geoffrey T. Hellman), Oct. 15, 1960, pp. 36–37.
“Chap with a Good Story to Tell,” New Yorker 47.13 (May 15, 1971), pp. 43ff. (McIlvaine H249, published in book form as The World of P. G. Wodehouse by Herbert Warren Wind, 1972)
“Three Gatherings,” New Yorker 47.37 (Oct. 30, 1971) 40–41.
Newsday
Weil, Liva. “Worldly Author Enjoys LI More than Any Spot on Globe,” Newsday, Aug. 31, 1955, p. 61.
Duncan, Val. “Weekend with – P. G. Wodehouse,” Newsday, Jul. 25, 1964, pp. 10–11W.
“VIPs Sound Off: What’s Right—and Wrong—About LI,” Newsday, Sep. 11, 1965.
Seligsohn, Leo. “Looking Ahead with Wodehouse and Bolton,” Newsday, Oct. 19, 1970, pp. 4–5A.
Carter, Sylvia. “Sunny 90th Birthday for P. G. Wodehouse,” Newsday, Oct. 18, 1971, p. 15A.
Cohn, Al. “People: This Week: A Special Look at Personalities in the Arts,” Newsday, Oct. 21, 1973, p. F2.
Harris, Amanda. “A Plum of a Title to Jeeves’ Master,” Newsday, Jan. 2, 1975, p, 9.
Newsweek
“Talk with the Author,” Newsweek 74 (Feb. 6, 1961), p. 87 [with review of Ice in the Bedroom]
“Newsmakers,” Newsweek 85 (Jan. 13, 1975), p. 44.
Nova
Inglis, Ruth. “What Ho, Wodehouse,” Nova, Oct. 1974, 80–82, 104 (?). (McIlvaine H173; apparently Inglis conducted this interview in 1967 but it wasn’t published until 1974.)
Observer [London]
“Wodehouse at 90,” Observer (10 Oct. 1971), p. 12. (McIlvaine H145)
“Wodehouse Writes New Novel at 91,” Observer, Oct. 15, 1972, p. 1.
Paris Review
“P. G. Wodehouse: The Art of Fiction LX,” Paris Review 64 (Winter 1975) 149–171.
Philadelphia Inquirer
“Fun to Write Musical Comedy,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 24, 1918, p. 22.
PM [New York]
“Wodehouse: No Butlers Left,” PM, Apr. 30, 1947.
Province
“ ‘Jeeves Is My Favorite Character,’ Admits ‘P. G.’,” The Province, May 10, 1931, p. 7. (found by Ananth Kaitharam)
Radio Times
Reifler, Samuel. “P. G. Wodehouse: Living in his own secluded world,” Radio Times Oct. 10, 1974, pp. 74–5.
Salt Lake Telegram
“Krazy Kat,” Salt Lake Telegram, May 31, 1920, p. 98.
Saturday Evening Post
“Keeping Posted,” Nov. 21, 1936, p. 112.
“Keeping Posted,” Aug. 5, 1939, p. 84.
Saturday Review
Beatty, Jerome, Jr. “Trade Winds,” Saturday Review, May 11, 1957, pp. 6–7.
Online at unz.com
Screenland
Strider, Gray. “Oh, I Say! Ripping, What?” [scanned image] Screenland, Aug. 1930, pp. 20–21. [Text transcription on this site]
Show: The Magazine of the Arts
Cunniff, Robert. “Famous Failures,” Show 2.7 (July 1962), pp. 70–73. (“P. G. Wodehouse: Bankbooks to Novels,” p. 72)
Straits Times
“Fear Makes Writers Humorists,” The Straits Times, May 1, 1932, p. 2
“He Has Already Written 65 Books,” The Straits Times, 10 Apr. 1947, p. 9.
Sunday Express
Lord, Graham. “Will P. G. Wodehouse Ever Come Back to England?” Sunday Express, 3 Jan. 1971, p. 6.
Sunday Mirror
“Wodehouse: ‘I Feel Fine’,” Sunday Mirror, 26 Nov. 1944.
Sunday Times [London]
Foster, William. “With Digressions” (column interviewing Wodehouse on verge of 75th birthday) Sunday Times issue 6961 (14 October 1956), p. 12
“P. G. Wodehouse Is Grateful for ‘Act of Reparation.’ ” Sunday Times, 23 July 1961, p. 5.
Norman, Philip. “Thank You, Plum,” Sunday Times issue 7625 (20 July 1969)
Theatre
O’Connor, Eileen. “A Team of Playwrights Extraordinary,” Theatre 26.202 (Dec. 1917), p. 368. (brief quotation)
Time
“The Literary Life,” Time 49.18 (May 5, 1947) pp. 47–48.
“Wodehouse Aeternus,” Time 98.17 (Oct. 25, 1971), pp. 91–92.
“People,” Time, Jan. 13, 1975, p. 37.
Times [London]
“Mr. Wodehouse Freed from Internment,” June 27, 1941, p. 3.
“Mr. P. G. Wodehouse’s Nationality: U.S. Citizenship Sought,” Sep. 10, 1955, p. 6.
• Note: “The Times Diary,” July 18, 1973, p. 16, quotes a letter from PGW to Guy Bolton (in which he comments on “this bloody Watergate business”).
Western Mail [Australia]
“The Creator of Jeeves,” Western Mail (Australia), May 14, 1931.
Writer’s Digest
“Exclusive Interview with P. G. Wodehouse,” Writer’s Digest 51 (Oct. 1971) pp. 22–24, 43. (McIlvaine H125)
Miscellaneous sources and broadcasts
An interview with Jack Ellsworth was conducted in 1970 but published posthumously. See Plum Lines 17.4 (Winter 1997), pp. 20-21.
A BBC interview from 16 October 1958 can be viewed at the BBC web site. (Many thanks to Brad Stevens for providing the link.)
• Update November 2013: this link provides a descriptive page, but at least in the US the video doesn’t play. I assume this link will work in the UK.
Brief excerpts from interviews can be seen in the BBC documentary “Wogan on Wodehouse” which once was available on YouTube but has since been removed. (Wodehouse speaks at ca. 5:11, 12:40, 16:51, 19:11. 25:50, 38:01, 43:56, 49:18, 53:10, 54:35, 55:35). Some of these clips have been excerpted from the documentary and posted again on YouTube; Sir Terry Wogan’s narration introduces some of them.
If you have questions, or know of interviews not listed here, please e-mail Arthur Robinson at awrobins@yahoo.com. I have PDFs of many of the articles listed above, if you want them.
https://madameulalie.org/arobinson/pgwinterviews.html
Arthur Robinson, awrobins@yahoo.com
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