Tim McInnerny
Odour

Odour

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2012
  • 1 episode

Tim McInnerny stars as a professor who is driven to distraction by a persistent odour, in this black Radio 4 comedy drama. Stars Tim McInnerny, Kathryn Hunt, Fiona Clark, Conrad Nelson and Yusra Warsama

Press clippings

An essay in obsession came from James O'Neill in Odour, in which Tim McInnerny's high-handed cardiologist went to pieces as an unidentifiable smell seemed to follow him around. We were told it is a recognised condition (phantosmia) caused by brain seizures and other diseases but here seemed more of an obsessive-compulsive disorder triggered by guilt over his appalling treatment of a former lover and student. The author avoided having to write a denouement by getting his surgeon to throw himself off a roof. However, disappointment was avoided by McInnerny's intense depiction of a loathsome man who somehow located his own conscience.

Moira Petty, The Stage, 25th April 2012

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