Victorian Love Stories (Omnibus)

A collection of Victorian love stories by Oscar Wilde, George Egerton, Ellen T Fowler, Henry Harland and Ernest Dowson.

Tales of requited and unrequited passion.

Omnibus of five stories.

Oscar Wilde - The Nightingale and the Rose
A young man needs a red rose to woo his love, and a nightingale makes the ultimate sacrifice to procure the bloom.
Reader: Jo James

George Egerton - A Little Grey Glove
A rich man falls hook, line and sinker for a mysterious married woman beside a river bank.
Reader: Simon Tait

Ellen T Fowler - An Old Wife's Tale
A man recounts how he saved his wife-to-be in a house fire but could not save her sister...
Reader: Hilary Neville

Henry Harland - Flower o' the Quince
An aristocrat returns to England from Panama to succeed as lord of a grand estate, after his sudden inexplicable disappearance abroad more than 30 years ago...
Reader: Joanna Tope

Ernest Dowson - The Statute of Limitations
A man who's worked in Chile for 15 years grows increasingly apprehensive at the thought of seeing the faded beauty of his fiancee when he returns to England.
Reader: Jimmy Chishol

Producer: Julia Butt

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.