Rousseau's Tale [Audio]

BBC R3 - David Pownall's 'Rousseau's Tale'
Directed by Eoin O'Callahagan
Broadcast February 12, 1991
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
January 1765. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is in exile in London. Here he delivers a lecture to the Royal Society in Fleet Street on the subject of his 'Sexual Feelings'.
"... It is my habit and discipline to be absolutely honest in these matters … from now on I forbid anyone to leave under any pretext whatsoever as we are entering into a sacred discourse between
myself and my animal soul. Disgust and revulsion have no place here. We are in the temple of truth ..."
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