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I am Ouida!

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The most colourful and extravagant of Victorian lady novelists

'It is said that Ouida holds court in the Langham Hotel, where she conducts all her business from her bedroom! She covers the windows in black velvet and lights the place with candles. Oscar Wilde calls it his 'Chapel of Unrest'.

The story told by Janet Hitchman with Betty Hardy as Ouida.

Contributors

Presenter:
Janet Hitchman
Quida:
Betty Hardy
Other parts played by:
Jan Edwards
Other parts played by:
Kathleen Helme
Other parts played by:
Hilda Kriseman
Other parts played by:
John Bentley
Other parts played by:
John Bryning
Other parts played by:
Geoffrey Collins
Producer:
Robert Cradock
Source: Radio Times

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