The Trials of Oscar Wilde (BBC 1996) torrent

THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE

Simon Russell-Beale stars as Oscar Wilde in a recreation of the doomed libel action taken by Wilde against the Marquis of Queensbury. Old Bailey, the main courthouse in London, had never presented a show quite like the trial that captivated England and much of the literary world in the spring of 1895. Celebrity, sex, witty dialogue, political intrigue, surprising twists, and important issues of art and morality--is it any surprise that the trials of Oscar Wilde continue to fascinate one hundred years after the death of one of the world's greatest authors and playwrights?

The Trials of Oscar Wilde - Part I:
'Between the Bark and The Tree'
By Christopher Fitz-Simon (89 mins)

Directed by Peter Kavanagh


Oscar Wilde and His Longtime Companion Lord Alfred Douglas

The Cast
Nathaniel Parker........ Edward Carson
Nigel Davenport......... Marquis of Queensbury
Simon Russell-Beale..... Oscar Wilde
Peter Sallis.............. Edward Clarke
Gerard Murphy........... Frank Harris
Christopher Scott....... Charles Brookfield
Robert Harper........... Seymour Hicks
Alex Lowe................. Lord Alfred Douglas
Sean Baker................ Lord Rosebury
Jonathan Adams.......... Mr Birtwhistle
Chris Pavlo............... Charles Parker
Richard Pearce............ Robert Ross
Jim Norton................ George Bernard Shaw
Kim Wall.................. Alfred Taylor

First broadcast 5th Oct 1996 - BBC R4
Repeated 10th April 2005 - BBC R7

Part one of this play takes us as far as the Marquis' acquittal, to the point of Wilde's arrest resulting from allegations made during the trial.


The Trials of Oscar Wilde - Part II:
'The Love That Dare Not Speak its Name'
By Christopher Fitz-Simon (59 mins)

Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan

First broadcast 12th Oct 1996? - BBC R4
Repeated on 17th Apr 2005 - BBC R7.

Part two, in which Edward Carson doesn't appear, follows Wilde's own trial for gross indecency.


Wilde in the dock, from The Illustrated Police News, 4 May 1895

Wilde was imprisoned first in Pentonville and then Wandsworth Prison in London. Inmates followed a regimen of "hard labour, hard fare and a hard bed", which wore very harshly on Wilde, accustomed as he was to many creature comforts. His health declined sharply, and in November he collapsed during chapel from illness and hunger. His right ear drum was ruptured in the fall, an injury that would later contribute to his death. He spent two months in the infirmary.

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