Flowers of Evil
Antony Sher reads from Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal, and Imogen Stubbs reads works by Shakespeare, Hardy, Pound and Eliot. With music from Takemitsu, Messiaen and Debussy.
The programme explores Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal, an expression of personal torment and the conflict between Catholic morals and debauchery in 19th-century Paris. Antony Sher reads from the texts, with Imogen Stubbs reading complementary works by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and TS Eliot.
With the voice of Jean-Louis Barrault and music influenced by Baudelaire from Debussy, Duparc, Serge Gainsbourg and Diamanda Galas, as well as Takemitsu and Messiaen.
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- Sun 18 May 2008 22:45成人快手 Radio 3
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