Sunday Feature: Oscar in AmericaSeries 1, episode 0One hundred and twenty five years ago this month, a flamboyant young man sailed for England, after a visit to America that proved seminal towards his development into one of the literary greats. Owen Dudley Edwards recounts how a trip to promote a comic opera turned into a year-long tour that educated America about aesthetic ideas, and about its educator, the Apostle of Aestheticism, Oscar Wilde. On this tour, Oscar gave no less than 140 lectures over 260 days, met leading figures from government, arts and culture, and created a legacy both for an emerging nation and for himself, as an emerging writer. Mingling epigrams, history, and literary lore are Oscar's grandson Merlin Holland, tour guide John Cooper, historian Mary Warner Blanchard, and critic Declan Kiberd. Click to see when Sunday Feature, Oscar in America is coming up on UK TV |
Regular visitors to Digiguide.tv will notice that you now require a subscription to use some of the features.
However, you can give the FREE 7 day trial version of Digiguide.tv Premium a try. Build up your profile with programmes that you like, personalise your grid and set some reminders. Remember, to get a year's worth of personalised TV content for less than 1p per day simply subscribe to Digiguide Premium
Database last updated: Today at 01:50