The Importance of Being Oscar
A BBC picture of Oscar Wilde career before his trial because of crimes and tragic fall from grace. Saved from tales like The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Ghost and Oscar comedies like The Importance of Being Earnest are adapted and performed by a cast including James Fleet, Claire Skinner, Anna Chancellor and Freddie Fox. Experts and enthusiasts, including Stephen Fry, Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland along with his newest biographers, provide reports of his or her own life informed his job. The significance of men, women in addition to in his lifetime his early career, his marriage and his roots unite within a characterisation and celebration which adds flesh.
