Twenty Minutes

Fuelled with Fantasy

Saturday 3 September 2005 19:40-20:00 (Radio 3)

Medical historian Mike Jay sheds light on the role that opium played in Berlioz's composition of the Symphonie fantastique - and on how, in turn, his work contributed to its increasingly lurid image as a recreational rather than medicinal drug in the later 19th Century.

Duration:

20 minutes

Twenty Minutes

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