Radio review - TGA - "An Ideal Husband" (1952) ***1/2

Rex Harrison is the perfect Oscar Wilde hero - haughty, superior, witty, attractive, looks as though has never worked a day in his life - and his then-wife Lili Palmer is ideal casting too as the femme fetale. This play always struggles to make the married couple interesting - the priggish MP who was corrupt in a former life and his stuck up wife - even though their fate are the stakes. I guess they learn their lesson about judging people (although the MP is still reluctant to give his consent to marriage at the end because he thinks his friend has been rooting around) - but they're not as funny as the others. Still it's a bright version of an old favourite.