The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (TRIH ep 341, part 1)

1895 · Resource

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Oscar Wilde's literary brilliance and the circumstances that led to his public downfall. They outline Wilde's rise — Oxford education, editorship, Dorian Gray, Salome and comic plays — and his increasingly public same-sex relationships from the mid-1880s, especially with Robbie Ross and Alfred Lord Douglas ("Bosie").