
Oscar The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
In the summer of 1891, Oscar Wilde first met Lord Alfred Douglas — an encounter that will dramatically and tragically change both of their lives.
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- First Aired on
Mar 26, 1985
- Popularity: 0.4457
- 3 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Mar 28, 1985
Last episode: De Profundis
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 3 episodes

Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Gilded Youth50 min
At number 16, Tite Street, London, in the summer of 1891, a meeting takes place that will dramatically and tragically change the lives of the four people present.
Episode 2Trials50 min
By 1894 Oscar Wilde was flourishing - acknowledged as the greatest wit and one of the finest playwrights in Britain. His close friendship with Bosie Douglas , however, had provoked a quarrel with Bosie's father, Lord Queensberry, which in the following spring came to a head when Oscar charged Queensberry with criminal libel.
Episode 3De Profundis50 min
Following the sensational trials, and to the delight of the public and press, Oscar Wilde , found guilty of acts of gross indecency with various male persons, was incarcerated in Pentonville Prison in May 1895 to serve a sentence of two years' hard labour -an experience which would later produce one of his best known works, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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