Oscar Wilde 's Salome was first produced in Paris while Wilde himself was in prison, and banned in Britain until 1931. Tonight, Patrick Wright sees Emily Woof star in a new adaptation from the translation by Alfred Douglas. And how far is our modern debate about the role of rural areas shaped by pastoral visions from the past? Patrick Wright discusses
Landscape and Englishness, in which David Matiess draws on health manuals, poetry, nature guides and novels to explore the origins of current attitudes about the countryside. Producer Lawrence Pollard