Oscar Wilde work to be performed in Reading Prison

HMP Reading is to open to the public for the first time for an arts project celebrating former inmate Oscar Wilde.

Actors Ralph Fiennes and Maxine Peake and singer Patti Smith are among those who will take part in readings at the former prison's chapel.

Wilde was a prisoner between 1895 and 1897 and wrote about his experience in his poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

The Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison project runs from 4 September to 30 October.