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Oscar Wilde himself (1985) Part 1 - 6

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Uploaded by on May 9, 2009

Here is a short biography of Oscar Wilde that is found on the BBC TV mini-series disc. I watched it a few years ago. I thought it might be interesting to some viewers.

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

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

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

  • @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!

  • @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 !

  • @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."

  • @antihostile

    How do you know that it is fake !

  • 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 !

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

  • @antihostile

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

  • Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas R.I.P

  • @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. 

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