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LADY WILDE'S TEA PARTY

on BBC Radio 3

A conversation piece by John O'Hare with Patience Collier as Lady Wilde John O'Hare has written a number of imaginary conversations for radio, including one between Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw. In this evening's programme he returns to the Wilde family, to a tea party given by Oscar's mother in the days of her widowhood, when she came to live in London with her two sons. Here. she tried to re-create the salon that had been the pride of her Dublin life. On this particular afternoon she is entertaining an all-female gathering of English beauties, poetry readers, and Gaelic Leaguers....
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
Second broadcast
Patience Cottier Is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Contributors

Unknown:
John O'Hare
Unknown:
Lady Wilde John O'Hare
Unknown:
Bernard Shaw.
Produced By:
Dorothy Baker
Maid:
Kate Binchy
The Grocer:
Geoffrey Hinsllff
Comtesse de Bremont:
Madi Hedd
Mary Potter:
Maureen Beck
Miss Fortescue:
Gretta Gouriet
Hannah Lynch:
Pauline Letts
Katharine Tynan:
Ollve Gregg
Miss Thompson:
Betty Hardy
Oscar Wilde:
Allan McClelland

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