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Episode 41: Matthew Sturgis on Oscar Wilde and Social Mores

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The Trial of Edward Carson in the Old Bailey

Wilde's barrister in the case was edward carson, who had been a university with wilde. And he remembered carson as a sort of a plodder, rarely a kind of a leading lights. So to have suddenly be re confronted with him in the old bailey and find this figure we always slightly condescended towards a being an implacable foe, was a, was really an awful thing. He has often used this trial as a good example of the, of the hypocrisy of victorian society and so on.

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