Oscar

Season 1 Episode 3: De Profundis

Mar 28, 1985NR50m6.8

Following the sensational trials, and to the delight of the public and press, Oscar Wilde , found guilty of acts of gross indecency with various male persons, was incarcerated in Pentonville Prison in May 1895 to serve a sentence of two years' hard labour -an experience which would later produce one of his best known works, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Oscar background

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Gilded Youth

1. Gilded Youth

Aired: Mar 26, 1985

At number 16, Tite Street, London, in the summer of 1891, a meeting takes pla...

Episode 2 Trials

2. Trials

Aired: Mar 27, 1985

By 1894 Oscar Wilde was flourishing - acknowledged as the greatest wit and on...

Episode 3 De Profundis

3. De Profundis

Aired: Mar 28, 1985

Following the sensational trials, and to the delight of the public and press,...

Info about Oscar

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Drama, History, Biography