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