The Importance of Being Earnest

BBC Two

Duration: 1 hour, 27 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 15^th Apr 2007, 22:00 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Thu 15^th Jul 2021, 20:00 on BBC Four

Adaptation of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece, set in 1890s England. A comedy of mistaken identity ensues when two gentlemen friends use the same alias to pursue the women they love. Show more

A Good Woman

BBC Two

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 3^rd Mar 2008, 20:30 on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: Sat 18^th Feb 2012, 14:05 on BBC Two England

Witty update of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan. A gold-digging American pursues a wealthy Lord as he honeymoons with his young wife on the Amalfi coast.

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Meg Windermere:: Scarlett Johansson
Tuppy:: Tom Wilkinson
Mrs Erlynne:: Helen Hunt
Lord Darlington:: Stephen Campbell Moore
Contessa Lucchino:: Milena Vukotic
Robert Windemere:: Mark Umbers
Cecil:: Roger Hammond
Director:: Mike Barker
Author:: Oscar Wilde

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The Importance of Being Earnest

BBC Two

Duration: 1 hour, 31 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 17^th May 2008, 14:35 on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: Sun 3^rd Sep 2023, 12:30 on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Classic comic drama based on Oscar Wilde's play about two bachelors who each pretend to be the dashing but wholly imaginary Ernest when courting two ladies. Show more

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Mr Jack Worthing:: Michael Redgrave
Mr Algernon Moncrieff:: Michael Denison
Miss Gwendolen Fairfax:: Joan Greenwood
Lady Bracknell:: Edith Evans
Miss Cecily Cardew:: Dorothy Tutin
Miss Prism:: Margaret Rutherford
Rev Doctor Chasuble:: Miles Malleson
Seton:: Richard Wattis
Lane:: Walter Hudd
Merriman:: Aubrey Mather
Coach Driver:: Ivor Barnard
Producer:: Teddy Baird
Writer:: Anthony Asquith
Author:: Oscar Wilde
Director:: Anthony Asquith

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

BBC Radio 3

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 12^th Apr 2015, 22:00 on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: Sun 25^th Sep 2016, 21:00 on BBC Radio 3

Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic drama of vanity and evil The Picture of Dorian Gray. With Jasper Britton, Maggie Steed, Tom Canton and Peter Guinness. Show more