The Oscar Wilde BBC Radio Drama Collection The Oscar Wilde BBC Radio Drama Collection

The Oscar Wilde BBC Radio Drama Collection

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Publisher Description

The collected BBC radio productions of the major works of Oscar Wilde, plus bonus play by Neil Bartlett

Loved for his flamboyant personality, sparkling wit and brilliant epigrams, Oscar Wilde was a comic genius and a literary icon.

This collection reflects the many facets of his dazzling talent. Here are dramatisations of his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a Gothic tale of a gilded aristocrat who makes a dangerous pact, as well as four scintillating social comedies – Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband. Among the distinguished casts are Ian MacDiarmid, Joely Richardson, Edward Fox, Diana Rigg, Martin Clunes, Michael Hordern and Judi Dench.

Moving examples of his correspondence are revealed in The Letters of Oscar Wilde and De Profundis, read by Simon Callow and Simon Russell Beale respectively, and his most famous poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, is performed live by stars including Ian McKellen, Neil Tennant and Stephen Fry.

In addition, a bonus drama, In Extremis by Neil Bartlett, starring Corin Redgrave and Sheila Hancock, reimagines Oscar Wilde's hastily arranged sitting with a society palm reader, a week before the trial that would cost him so dearly.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
DR
Diana Rigg
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11:58
hr min
RELEASED
2019
April 4
PUBLISHER
BBC Audio
SIZE
715.7
MB
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