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.
Read by 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.
Read by 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...
Read by Hilary Neville.

Henry Harland: FLOWERS 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...
Read by Joanna Tope.

Ernest Dowson: THE STATUE 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.
Read by Jimmy Chishol.

Producer: Julia Butt

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.