It’s a Wilde story told with love

Nicholas Rowe as Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Oscar (BBC Four)

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The Importance of Being Oscar: BBC Four

Line of Duty: BBC One

I greatly enjoyedThe Importance of Being Oscar(BBC Four), which is not to be confused with Mícheál Mac Liammóir’s mid-1960s one-man show of the same name. This one didn’t give so much as a nod to that work written and performed by the Englishman who had reinvented himself as an Irishman.

In 1899, as Oscar Wilde was entering the ...