From roses to rotting rubbish, chrysanthemums in DH Lawrence to cyanide in a Poirot story: today's programme conjures our sense of smell with music from Ellington to Gounod.
Tom Hollander and Anna Maxwell Martin reading prose and verse, from roses to rotting rubbish, from Marie Antionette's perfume to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, from chrysanthemums in DH Lawrence to cyanide in a Poirot story: today's programme conjures our sense of smell with music from Duke Ellington, Chopin, Gustav Holst, Edith Piaf to Gounod.
Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo
READINGS:
Scent of Irises by DH Lawrence
Scent by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
My Mother's Perfume by Pascale Petit
Ars Poetica XVI, from the collection Bright Fear, by Mary Jean Chan
As A Perfume by Arthur Symons
Exotic Fragrance, from Les Fleurs du mal, by Charles Baudelaire
Odour Of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Elixir by Theresa Levitt
The Adventure in the Egyptian Tomb by Agatha Christie
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
