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Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 7Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

At a country house party, Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret comes back to haunt her.

Oscar Wilde's audacious social comedy - first performed on stage in 1893.

Starring Diana Rigg, Martin Jarvis and Annette Crosbie.

Mrs Arbuthnot ...... Diana Rigg
Lord Illingworth ...... Martin Jarvis
Lady Hunstanton ...... Annette Crosbie
Lady Caroline Pontefract ...... Irene Sutcliffe
Mrs Allonby ...... Susan Sheridan
Lady Stutfield ...... Auriol Smith
Gerald Arbuthnot ...... Dominic Letts
Hester Worsley ...... Teresa Gallagher
Archdeacon Daubeny ...... David King
Sir John Pontefract ...... Geoffrey Chater
Mr Kelvill, MP ...... Jack Klaff
Alice ...... Adjoa Andoh
Lord Alfred Rufford ...... Peter Penry-Jones

Violin: Alexander Balanescu.

Adapted and directed by Adrian Bean.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1991. Show less

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