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Senses of Occasion

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The last of eight talks in which a memory is triggered off by a sight, sound, smell, taste or touch: The Aunts' Furniture Polish
The four maiden ladies lived piously in a Staffordshire house with scarlet geraniums and monkey puzzle trees. But the smell of their furniture polish is John Sherwood 's passport to the Boxer Rebellion and riots in Amritsar.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

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John Sherwood
Producer:
Barbara Crowther
Source: Radio Times

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