Oscar Wilde himself (1985) Part 1 - 6

[khat820]

'I am one of those who are made for exceptions not for laws'. Oscar Wilde. WOW

[sahajad]

Thank you for uploading this very informative programme ! This porgramme gives us a lot of information of Wilde ! Thank you once again for uploading it .

Nice to see his grand son. I hope that he takes back the Wilde surname !

[coldplayke]

Who can tell me what the cello music around 4.00 is? I'm looking for a new piece, and I love this..

[iamwalkingthec0w]

Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas R.I.P

[seonidh]

Wilde was Anglo-Irish being protestant

[deliriousweare]

oh this was incredible interesting! thank you.

[JediHobbit89]

It's cool how much Oscar and Bosie's descendants look like them.

[antihostile]

Sadly, the recording of Oscar Wilde is a fake. Thanks for posting this doc!

[BelatedCommiseration]

@antihostile Are you sure? Shame...I was amazed to think that there might be a recording of Oscar Wilde, I had never heard of one before. I have got to say however, it does almost sound a bit too Irish for Wilde. He is supposed to have exchanged his Irish brogue for an English drawl when up at Oxford in the 1870's and by all accounts lost almost all trace of it apart from certain turns of phrase he employed. In fact Wilde himself said he 'forgot' his Irish accent.

[coldplayke]

@antihostile

Thank God you said that...I had imagined his voice completely different...

[sahajad]

@antihostile

How do you know that it is fake !

[antihostile]

@sahajad

From the BBC: "The world's only known recording of the voice of Oscar Wilde is a fake, researchers at the British Library have said. In the recording, a voice - long believed to be that of the 19th Century playwright and wit - can be heard reading The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Experts have analysed the recording using the latest techniques, and have concluded it is likely to be a forgery."

[sahajad]

@antihostile

Yeah, I suppose it is right.After all who would record his voice especially when he got into such a scandal. Infact they would have had erased all his recordings had they had any !

It is a pity though since I was quite excited thinking that it was his voice !

[antihostile]

@sahajad

It really is a pity. He was considered the greatest conversationalist of his age. I can't even imagine what it would have been like to be at a dinner party with Oscar Wilde!

[scottvska]

From 1995, not 85.

[ashburnhouse]

This documentary is soooo much better than the other one, which parallels Oscar with pop stars.

[MerlinXArthur]

This is interesting! thank you for sharing!!

[smaellett]

Shes blaming herself for something she had completely no control of...

[acmedressform]

does anyone find it strange that he almost conjured up Dorian Gray in the guise of Bosie. He actually wrote the novel before they met. There are metaphorical similarities which are uncanny.

[herappleness]

Amazing video. Thanks so much. Lady Alice's looks are so much like Bosie's...it was powerful to see her and Merlin Holland in the same room. I always wondered what that would be like.

[bluefrogfactory]

It was Oscar Wilde himself who was responsible for his downfall, when he failed to control his unnatural lust.

Oscar was a briliiant individual, but he was also a defective male human being. so what?.

[am1966ath]

He lived in a time of hypocrasy, he could have been discreet or fled to the continent. Why should he be made responsible for all the gay in victorian London, full of brothels and beggers.

[MoeTheSyco]

Thank you for this.

[moogamax]

I wouldn't have thought it possible, but Lady Alice is even prettier than Bosie.

[sylvischatz]

Thank you for posting this.

[jeremyshambles]

perfectly wonder-full, thank you kindly for sharing this amazing series, take care.

[basshamrockkk]

Absolutely incredible!! Great!!! Thank you very much!!!