Posted by
Riklaa on June 28, 2009 at 12:28pm
Clean Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing
read by Tamsin Greig.
Produced by Clive Brill
Five episodes.
First broadcast from 20080602 to 20080606 (Book of the Week).
160/44; 79 MB total; sound quality excellent
Ashenburg has worked as an academic, CBC Radio producer and as arts and books editor for the Globe And Mail. She has written for the New York Times and her books include The Mourner's Dance.
20080602 Our obsession with bathing started with the Romans and the Greeks, who competed to see who could build the biggest baths.
20080603 The major religions had vastly differing views on cleanliness, but did a dirty body necessarily mean a cleaner soul?
20080604 In the 18th century it became fashionable not to wash. It was understood that the best way to keep clean was to keep changing the linen and splashing the perfume.
1-3 of 5Ashenburg 080602 Clean 1of5.mp3
Ashenburg 080603 Clean 2of5.mp3
Ashenburg 080604 Clean 3of5.mp3
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read by Tamsin Greig.
Produced by Clive Brill
20080605 Public baths arrived during the Victorian age. As the gap between the great unwashed and the great perfumed narrowed, a class-ridden society came under threat.
20080606 Americans became obsessed with beauty products in the 20th century.
Ashenburg 080605 Clean 4of5.mp3
Ashenburg 080606 Clean 5of5.mp3
I realy enjoy these abridged readings - sort of like an audio version of Readers Digest.
Thanks for posting.
I found a couple of others in the BBC Free-To-Air Recordings Unedited discussion that I think were posted by Couch Potato. All makes for excellent listening.
You must live in Britain somewhere. They won't let me download anything because I am not.
You lucky dog, I have to get my stuff from Usenet.Speaking of that I am going to start posting Great Lives, still looking for pictures. Thanks-----------------------Rick