Wilde's "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" this week on BBC Radio 7.

Oscar Wilde, ca. 1882. Library
of Congress, Prints and
Photographs Division

This week on BBC Radio 7, Lord Arthur Savile is told that he is destined to commit a murder, so he decides to attend to it—right away. Michael Maloney reads Oscar Wilde's lively work. Go here for the schedule or to listen online; episodes can usually be heard for a week after broadcast.

Read W. B. Yeats's review of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891): "Surely we have in this story ["Lord Arthur"] something of the same spirit that filled Ireland once with gallant, irresponsible ill-doing..."

Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime on stage in DC.

Through March 21st, the Washington Stage Guild is performing in Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, in which his lordship, receiving the news that he is destined to commit a murder, decides to get it out of the way immediately. Go here for the Washington Post review; here to read W. B. Yeats's review of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891).

About the image: Oscar Wilde, ca. 1882. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division