Ep. 339 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “The Man Who Destroyed Oscar Wilde”

As Christopher and Eric continue their month of special Pride Pairings, they launch their two-episode exploration of literary great Oscar Wilde with a True Crime TV Club installment they assumed would be focused on the young lover many blame for Wilde’s personal destruction or at the very least the young man’s father. Turns out this documentary assigned that role to someone entirely unexpected. Who knew? (The Irish did, apparently but they forgot. You’ll see what we mean.) In the BBC Select documentary, THE MAN WHO DESTROYED OSCAR WILDE, your hosts meet an unexpected and astonishing host and take a surprising journey into the “recently” rediscovered transcripts of a trial that brought about the ruin of one of England’s greatest authors and playwrights and one of the wittiest and most brilliant queer men to ever walk the planet. It’s a nice warm up for next week’s serving of the 1997 biopic, WILDE, starring Stephen Fry.