Life in Scents

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Life in Scents episodes

November 02, 2013 Sniff and Scream: Hawthorne and Pink May
Hawthorne and Pink May
Sniff and Scream with James Craven: Episode 3

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11 min
November 02, 2013 Sniff and Scream: Patchouli and The Incredibly Strange Bed
Patchouli and The Incredibly Strange Bed
Sniff and Scream with James Craven: Episode 2

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6 min
October 31, 2013 Sniff and Scream: Oud Velvet Mood and Lot 249
Sniff and Scream with James Craven: Episode 1
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8 min
October 16, 2013 20 H.E. Williams Nkurunziza
Our guest on Life in Scents this month is His Excellency Williams Nkurunziza, who is the High Commissioner of the Republic of Rwanda to the United Kingdom and non-resident Ambassador to Ireland. With a diplomatic career that follows years in industry, His Excellency is also a poet, and his recent volume ranges across Rwanda's painful recent history and the drive towards rebuilding the country in the aftermath of genocide. We talked with him about the olfactory scentscapes of his home, from coffee plantations to gorilla-spotting at altitude.
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18 min
September 20, 2013 Victoria Henshaw: Urban Smellscapes
In this special edition of Life in Scents, we map the smells and stenches of the city, as Dr Victoria Henshaw, Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning at Sheffield University, shares her work in understanding the olfactory character of the urban. Victoria's talk, hosted at Angela Flanders' perfumery in East London to a public audience, was recorded immediately following a smell tour round Spitalfields which Odette had organised. From the scent implications of urban zoning to the creation of scents for perfuming town centres and the ethics of whiffy street ads, get ready to resniff your street. Victoria's book, Urban Smellscapes, was recently published by Routledge, and her website is: smellandthecity.wordpress.com/
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27 min
September 14, 2013 19 Benjamin Hebbert
Benjamin Hebbert, a London-based dealer in stringed instruments, is one of the world's foremost experts on violins and instrument making. A former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and European Specialist for Christie's auction house, Benjamin how buys and sells for a client base of professional musicians, for whom he helps find the perfect instrument. The world of strings is unexpectedly, one where an absence of smells is a mark of quality and authenticity. Odour is a sign that something might not be quite right, as Benjamin explained to us….
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20 min
May 23, 2013 18 Uta Frith
Developmental psychologist, Professor Uta Frith takes the hotseat in the latest edition of Life in Scents. One of the most formidable neuroscientists of her generation, particularly in the field of autism, she also loves perfume - taking listeners on a tour of her garden, lifting the lid on her box of German ointments and unguents reminiscent of childhood, and sharing the importance of spending time to enjoy beautiful scented objects and fragrances. By the end, you may well be keen to try her recipe for Maibowle, an aromatised wine made with sweet woodruff...
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28 min
May 23, 2013 17 Matthew Beaumont
We take an olfactory walk into the life of the flaneur in this month's Life in Scents, as we meet Matthew Beaumont, an academic at University College London who specialises in the cultural history of the city. Matthew gives his take on some fragrances of the Flaneur, the difference between day and nighttime smells, and the smells encountered by the walker as they go about the metropolis.

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28 min
May 07, 2013 16 Scottee
With his acts ranging from CAMP - a celebration of variety showpresenting - to Hamburger Queen, a fat beauty pageant, Scottee is a truly unique performance artist, journalist and director who has collaborated with the Barbican, the Royal Opera House, the Royal Festival Hall, and even the X Factor. Scottee also happens to be a perfume-fanatic, and in Life in Scents he discusses why he thinks perfume and class (that British sticking point…) are wrapped up in each other, and how he uses particular fragrances with each of his shows, often bringing some unusual audience interactions…
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29 min
March 16, 2013 15 Ben Townsend

Get a cup of coffee ready before listening to our latest edition of Life in Scents, as we meet Ben Townsend, one of the UK's most respected barista trainers. Ben's tiny coffee shop in London's Bloomsbury is a mecca to lovers of the bean, and we took a trip to Ben's basement to learn the art of cupping to experience the complex aromas in properly brewed coffee (our noses were truly put to the test!). We also hear about his Life in Scents - a childhood spent with craft glue and making models in his bedroom onto collecting vinyl...
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29 min

About Life in Scents

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Life in Scents is a podcast about smell, hosted by Jo Barratt and Odette Toilette. It’s an interview show where each time, our guest talks about the scents that have meant something to them through…