Book of the Week - Clean
Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing, read by Tamsin Greig
Book of the Week - Clean - Episode 1
Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing, read by Tamsin Greig. Our obsession with bathing started with the Romans and the Greeks.
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Book of the Week - Clean - Episode 2
Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing. The major religions had vastly differing views on cleanliness, but did a dirty body necessarily mean a cleaner soul?
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Book of the Week - Clean - Episode 3
Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing, read by Tamsin Greig. In the 18th century it became fashionable not to wash.
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Book of the Week - Clean - Episode 4
Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing. Public baths arrived during the Victorian age, narrowing the gap between the great unwashed and the great perfumed.
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Book of the Week - Clean - Episode 5
Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing, read by Tamsin Greig. Americans became obsessed with beauty products in the 20th century.
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