Oscar Wilde

This week on Fireside is Episode 80: The Remarkable Rocket Get in touch with the show on Kevin’s Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!…

This week on Fireside is Episode 79: The Devoted Friend Get in touch with the show on Kevin’s Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!…

This week on Fireside is Episode 76: The Selfish Giant Get in touch with the show on Kevin’s Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support ?

This week on Fireside is Episode 74: The Nightingale and the Rose Get in touch with the show on Kevin’s Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your…

This week on Fireside is Episode 72: The Happy Prince The first story from the Wilde Cycle, Kevin’s adaptations of the Fairy Tale’s of Oscar Wilde. We begin with the iconic Happy Prince. The story of the friendship between a little…

“Although what you are about to see is a work of fiction, it should nevertheless be played at maximum volume.” So opens Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine (1998), and it sets the tone for two key elements of the glam rock movie: it’s not about…

“Great people” rarely come from a vacuum. Though genius can blossom on the hardest ground, it most often finds root on the fertile soil of supportive and almost-equally talented family members. Sadly however, the bright light of genius…

'I cannot again appear before the public in so unseemly a character as that of a writer of romances, without regretting the necessity that compels me to it. Did my profession furnish me with the means of subsistence, I should hold myself…

Guantánamo Diary A Guantanamo Bay prisoner has released a book after 6 years of legal disputes surrounding its publication, and 2,500 redactions. 'Guantanamo Diary' reveals the author’s experiences during his 13 years of detention.…

Ruby in The Dust Production at The Kings Head Theatre Camden London 5-23 August 2014 “Lady Windermere’s Fan” was first performed on 2 February 1892 at the St James Theatre in London and was Wilde’s first theatrical success. As a satire on…