The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Audio2:45

Description

John Gielgud stars as Ernest and Edith Evans gives her indomitable performance as Lady Bracknell in this classic radio recording from 1951.

Duration

2:45

Type

Audiobook

Track Listing

Track #	Title	Artist	Length
1	Introduction	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:27
2	ALGERNON Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:49
3	ALGERNON How are you, my dear Ernest?	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	8:29
4	LADY BRACKNELL. Good afternoon, dear Algernon	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	3:34
5	JACK Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	3:33
6	LADY BRACKNELL Mr Worthing!	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	6:55
7	ALGERNON Didn’t it go off all right, old boy?	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	2:14
8	LANE Miss Fairfax.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:21
9	ALGERNON A glass of sherry, Lane.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:25
10	MISS PRISM Cecily, Cecily!	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	2:51
11	CHASUBLE And how are we this morning?	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:22
12	CECILY What is it, Merriman?	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:45
13	CECILY He does!	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	3:56
14	MISS PRISM Mr. Worthing! And in black!	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	3:33
15	CECILY Uncle Jack! I am pleased to see you back.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:50
16	JACK Good heavens! Algy.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:31
17	MERRIMAN I have put Mr Worthing’s things in the room next to yours, Sir.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:13
18	ALGERNON I must see her before I go...	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	7:08
19	CECILY Pray let me introduce myself to you.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	6:46
20	GWENDOLEN Ernest! My own Ernest!	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:32
21	CECILY Here is Ernest.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	6:18
22	GWENDOLEN The fact that they did not follow us at once...	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:34
23	GWENDOLEN This dignified silence seems to produce an unpleasant effect.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:50
24	MERRIMAN Lady Bracknell	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	9:55
25	CHASUBLE Everything is quite ready for the christenings.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:43
26	MISS PRISM I was told you expected me in the vestry, dear Canon.	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	2:22
27	JACK Is this the hand-bag, Miss Prism?	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	5:02
28	Go lovely Rose by Edmund Waller	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:59
29	Since first I saw your face (Anonymous)	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:00
30	Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day by William Shakespeare	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	57:00
31	The Triumph by Ben Jonson	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:33
32	That time of year thou mayest in me behold by William Shakespeare	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:03
33	Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	4:36
34	Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:07
35	Death be not proud by John Donne	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	1:00
36	We’ll go no more a-roving by Lord Byron	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:28
37	Young and Old by Charles Kingsley	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:44
38	A Birthday by Christina Rossetti	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:44
39	Summer Dawn by William Morris	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:57
40	Break, break, break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	0:58
41	The storm is over by Robert Bridges	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	2:45
42	This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle from King Richard II	John Gielgud, Edith Evans, and cast	3:13