In the Evening Standard 24.1.00, Melanie McDonagh reviewed What Ho! Among many good things she said, here are a few:

"You could, of course, write a thesis about Wodehouse but the endeavour would be like trying to preserve thistledown between sheet glass. The prose soars up and away, to be enjoyed by the simplest souls."

"This anthology is introduced by Stephen Fry and compiled after the suggestion of various P G Wodehouse societies. Their selection gives a flavour of most of Plum's prolific output, including poetry and some of his correspondence with Ira Gershwin, chiefly about Hollywood and including the revelation that Maureen O'Sullivan's Pekingese used to sleep under Plum's bed, and snore."

And a suggestion for future PGW anthologists to note:

"The one thing I would have liked to see in a Wodehouse anthology is a text from his wartime broadcasts, made while he was effectively in German custody - the ones which made him a pariah in England. It would be interesting to compare their content with the wholesale condemnation that they met over here - then, as now, from creeps and prigs."

Thank you Melanie. You can read the broadcasts (in slightly different versions) if you have a copy of Penguin's Performing Flea, or Frances Nicholson's biography P G Wodehouse, or Sproat's Wodehouse at War. But surely extracts from them should be available to the anthology-reading public, too. I cannot think of any other writer of note who has described prison life from the inside. They were originally written to amuse the other internees, who thought them very funny and very anti-German. And they were pure Wodehouse.