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Fiona McLean

Free Thinking: Smell: Michele Roberts, A history of dentistry.

Smell: Michele Roberts, A history of dentistry.

25/04/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Smell: Michele Roberts, A history of dentistry.

Matthew Sweet is joined by writer Michele Roberts, who talks about her latest novel.

Matthew Sweet is joined by writer Michele Roberts, who talks about her latest novel, The Walworth Beauty, which evokes Victorian London. Plus a history of dentistry.

Michèle Roberts' latest novel evokes Victorian London. Matthew Sweet asks how it smelt and what do museums do to create past smells. Plus a cultural history of dentistry with the medical historian Richard Barnett.

The Walworth Beauty by Michèle Roberts is out now. 
The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry by Richard Barnett is out now.

Producer: Fiona McLean.

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