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There was an interesting sidenote to Wodehouse's naive wartime radio addresses: he artlessly described the journey from his arrest at his home in France and incarceration in civilian prisons on the way to internment-- the use of prisons to house enemy civilian internees being prohibited by the Geneva convention. Something the German censors failed to spot among Wodehouse's genial burblings. US intelligence experts were impressed by the amount of otherwise censored information in his broadcasts, and used them in training sessions!
It was not of course intentional on Wodehouse's part, he did live in a world of his own, but there you go.
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