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The Erotomaniac

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Henry Spencer Ashbee was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. But, as biographer Ian Gibson discovers, his well-upholstered chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: Europe's largest collection of erotica and pornography, thousands of volumes strong. Ashbee's books and diaries reveal a man whose secret life typifies his age in all its curiosity, repression and subverted desire. Producer Jane Greenwood

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Henry Spencer Ashbee
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Ian Gibson
Producer:
Jane Greenwood

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