De Profundis Oscar : Season 1 Episode 3
BBC Two 3h 00m
Aired: March 28th, 1985 @ 7:00 PM EST on BBC Two
Following the sensational trials, and to the delight of the public and press, Oscar Wilde , found guilty of acts of gross indecency with various male persons, was incarcerated in Pentonville Prison in May 1895 to serve a sentence of two years' hard labour -an experience which would later produce one of his best known works, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
