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British Scandal

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The Trial of Oscar Wilde

The oldest one we've ever done and a new one. So it revolves around the trial of one of the country's most famous writers. You may know him from GCSE English Lit fame. Favour pitch, Nick Hornby. I don't know what you've heard about Nick Hornby, but no. I was thinking Oscar Wilde. Ah, yes. Make more sense? That would be my second... OK, third or fourth guess. It's the same GCSEs aren't multiple choice. These trials had it all. Celebrity, sex, wittier sides, political intrigue, and at the heart of it, a moral panic over one man's quest for love. This

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