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Ben DowellWhat Really
Happened in the
Nineties?
Radio 4, 1.45pm
If you remember what
happened in the 1990s, were
you even there? Well, one
person who certainly was is
Robert Carlyle, above, who
played the captivating
psychopath Begbie in one
of the decade’s hit films,
Trainspotting. Here he
examines the era’s key
cultural moments, which he
believes may have shaped
today’s world of cancel
culture, Brexit, identity
politics and war in Europe.
Today’s first episode
considers Britpop, Young
British Artists, designers,
gastropubs and coffee
culture and considers how
the competing visions
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsE
ver since I read Richard
Ellmann’s biography of Oscar
Wilde, a grim detail has stuck
in my head about the brutish
conditions in which he was
kept at Reading Gaol, serving two
years for “gross indecency”. The
latrines, perversely, had been removed
and replaced with tin buckets. Wilde,
suffering piteously with dysentery, said
the warders were violently sick when
they opened his cell.
Prisoner C33, Toby Stephens’s
excellent one-man rendition of Wilde’sincarceration in Reading and the way
it tortured him, physically and
mentally, wasted no time in
confronting this squalor, the camera
panning to the effluent-filled bucket
within two minutes. Wilde implored
the warders that it hadn’t been
emptied in three days. “The smell will
kill me!” he said, to deaf ears.
You would have to have a heart of
stone not to be hugely moved by this
play, written with skilful but harrowing
intensity by Stuart Paterson and
performed equally so by Stephens. Of
course when you have the full canon
of Wilde’s bons mots to draw upon it
makes the job easier, his light wit
lifting the cruel spectacle of this
wretched artist in his dark, stinking cell.
Stephens played two Wildes, one the
broken prisoner, skinny with his hair
cut; the other the Wilde of yore,
foppish and adored in his burgundy
velvet jacket. These two selves in
conversation with each other meant
that Stephens had double the work to
do, but it allowed the play to explore
Wilde’s brilliance and contradictions,
as a man who claimed to despise
materialism yet admitted, “I am
fascinated by the rich.”
Occasionally Stephens’s theatricality
edged towards the “Withnail”, but it
was mostly beautifully judged and
perfectly delivered. His imploring
speech, stating, “We cannot continue
keep on living like this, governed byfools who think only of wealth and of
war and the size of their estate,” still
feels perfectly applicable.
I hope you didn’t turn to Grace for a
cheery lifter after that. The ghastly
spectacle of a serial killer stalking
women while wearing a grotesque gas
mask was nearly (but not quite) as bad
as that scene in Luther when the killer
hid under a woman’s bed, ensuring I
didn’t sleep for a week. Luckily the
plot was so ludicrously tenuous you
couldn’t take it seriously.
It’s bad (OK, boring) enough when
dramas rely on the identical twin
conceit. Here (big spoiler alert) we
were expected to believe that triplets
had been separated at birth,
experiencing wildly different fortunes,
and now one was trying to kill
everything his wealthy estranged
brother loved because he had drawn
life’s short straw, having been sexually
abused by his adopted father.
These very dark themes were being
explored through the prism of a
Scooby-Doo plot. Arthur Darvill made
a decent, understated job of playing
two brothers, but the denouement
wasn’t worth the two-hour investment.
Actually, there was some decent fare
here: Grace (John Simm) finally has a
love interest in the form of Cleo (Zoë
Tapper), and they both own goldfish,
so it’s obviously written in the stars.
How long before he suggests an
exciting date with his psychic?A moving new ballad of Wilde in Reading Gaol
ANDREW FETTIS/ANGELICA FILMS/BBCCarol
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