Oscar Wilde BBC Radio Collection [files not found]

NOTE: The MP3 files used by this podcast appear to be missing. They may have been removed permanently from their source location. Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, and his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Included here are six full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of Wilde's plays and novel, as well as readings of a selection of his short stories. A Woman of No Importance At a country house party, Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret comes back to haunt her. Mrs Arbuthnot ...... Diana Rigg Lord Illingworth ...... Martin Jarvis Lady Hunstanton ...... Annette Crosbie Lady Caroline Pontefract ...... Irene Sutcliffe Mrs Allonby ...... Susan Sheridan Lady Stutfield ...... Auriol Smith Gerald Arbuthnot ...... Dominic Letts Hester Worsley ...... Teresa Gallagher Archdeacon Daubeny ...... David King Sir John Pontefract ...... Geoffrey Chater Mr Kelvill, MP ...... Jack Klaff Alice ...... Adjoa Andoh Lord Alfred Rufford ...... Peter Penry-Jones Other parts played by members of the cast. Adapted and directed by Adrian Bean. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1991 An Ideal Husband The unprincipled Mrs Cheveley threatens to reveal Sir Robert Chiltern's secret past unless he agrees to give his support in Parliament to a questionable Argentinian venture. Faced with ruin in the eyes of the country and his wife, he seems to have no alternative. Wildean wit and the elegance of English society is woven into this classic drama. The Earl of Caversham ...... Geoffrey Palmer Viscount Goring ...... Jasper Britton Sir Robert Chiltern ...... Alex Jennings Lady Chiltern ...... Emma Fielding Lady Markby ...... Sara Kestelman Miss Mabel Chiltern ...... Joanna Page Mrs Cheveley ...... Janet McTeer Vicomte De Nanjac ...... Oliver de Sueur Mrs Marchmont ...... Patience Tomlinson Countess of Basildon ...... Lucy Whybrow Mr Montford/James ...... John Cummins Phipps ...... Hugh Dickson Mason ...... Derek Beard Other parts played by members of the cast. Directed by David Timson. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 2010 The Importance of Being Earnest London, 1895: crafty friends Jack and Algernon are living a double life. Lady Bracknell ...... Judi Dench Algernon Moncrieff...... Martin Clunes Jack Worthing ...... Michael Sheen Miss Prism ...... Miriam Margolyes Canon Chasuble ...... John Moffatt Lane ..... Michael Hordern Other parts played by members of the cast. Produced by Glyn Dearman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995 Lady Windermere's Fan Lady Windermere suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman and confronts him with it. Although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs. Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball... Lady Windermere ..... Eleanor Tremain Lord Darlington ..... David Calder Lord Windermere ..... Jonathan Cake Mrs. Erlynne ..... Isla Blair Dramatised by Micheline Wandor Directed by Gordon House First Broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2000 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Attending one of Lady Windermere's regular Thursday evening society parties, the dashing Lord Arthur Savile offers his hand for a reading by the dastardly palmist, Podgers. But he's shocked when his murderous fate is revealed... Read by Michael Maloney. Produced by Katherine Beacon. First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in October 2003. The Picture of Dorian Gray A vain aristocrat - a gilded and spoilt hedonist - makes a dangerous pact to preserve his youth. Dorian Gray ...... Jamie Glover Lord Henry Wotton ...... Ian McDiarmid Basil Hallward ...... Steven Pacey Sybil Vane ...... Tilly Gaunt Jim Vane ...... Harry Myers Mrs Vane ...... Elizabeth Mansfield Lord Fermor ...... Brett Usher Aunt Agatha ...... Mary Wimbush Butler ...... Gavin Muir Mrs Vandelaur ...... Elizabeth Bell Lady Harley ...... Tessa Worsley Servant ...... Tom George Duke Geoffrey ...... Edward de Souza Thornton ...... Stephen Critchlow Campbell ...... Geoffrey Beevers Duchess ...... Alice Arnold Other parts played by members of the cast. Dramatised by Nick McCarty. Director: Gordon House. First broadcast on the BBC World Service in January 2000 The Canterville Ghost An American family move to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead English nobleman, who killed his wife and was then walled in and starved to death by his wife's brothers... Simon Canterville ..... Edward Petherbridge Hiram B. Otis ..... Angus MacInnes Mrs Otis ..... Gwyneth Guthrie Stripes ..... Eileen McCallum Stars ..... Mary Riggens Mrs Amney ..... Rose McBain Virginia ..... Anne Marie Zola Lord Cheshire ..... Antony Cochrane Lord Canterville ..... Raymond Ross Reverend Dampier ..... John Buick Dramatised by Nick McCarty Directed by Hamish Wilson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on New Year's Eve 1992 with thanks to prettyrandom