Revolutionary Rants

After a recommendation from my Mum yesterday I discovered that you can listen to programmes – via Real Player – from the past week on Radio Four.

The ‘Afternoon Reading’ this week, to mark the 100 anniversary of its first publication, is of Oscar Wilde’s ‘De Profundis’; the love/hate letter which he wrote whilst incarcerated in – our own town’s – Reading gaol. I love the plays of Oscar Wilde, and his novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’ was my favourite book until I read ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, but I have never actually read ‘De Profundis’, so I am really enjoying hearing it. (I can also recommend ‘Baggy Trousers’ from this week, which is funny)

I spent a lot of my teenage years listening – usually in the background! – to Radio 4 long wave in Ireland, but I never seem to put it on on the radio here – partly because I usually listen to my music or because if I do I always seem to hit on the hated ‘Gardener’s Question Time’!!! Anyway, just to say, take a look and listen because it is very good stuff!

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