Here is some of Oscar Wildes finest short fiction: Lord Arthur Saviles Crime, The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Birthday of the Infanta and The Portrait of Mr W. H. The range of Wildes talent and wit is fully evident in this diverse mix of stories. Within the collection there is an unconventional ghost story about a bungling and inept ghost, a twist on the conventional murder...
Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in Ladies of Letters and Ladies of More Letters, the two popular BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour series. Patricia Routledge is Vera Small and Prunella Scales is her friend (or maybe enemy), Irene Spencer. The two pass their time in regular correspondence and not an event goes by that is left unrecorded by the ladies of letters. Firstly there are the usual family problems to...