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The Lost Stories #2.1b
Doctor Who: The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance
Fragrance is a paradise world – a utopia that the travellers are loathe to leave after a relaxing stay. But the way of life is different here. And so is the way of love – as Barbara discovers when the Fragile Yellow Arc is broken...
1 pages, Audiobook
First published November 1, 2010
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About the author
Moris Farhi
17 books8 followersFarhi was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1935. Farhi received B.A. in Humanities from Robert Academy, Istanbul, in 1954. He came to the UK the same year and trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1956 and settling in London. After a brief career as an actor, he took up writing.
Farhi has written several novels, including Children of the Rainbow and Journey through the Wilderness. Children of the Rainbow has received two prizes: the “Amico Rom” from the Associazione Them Romano of Italy (2002); and the “Special” prize from the Roma Academy of Culture and Sciences in Germany (2003). The French edition of Young Turk (Jeunes Turcs) received the 2007 Alberto Benveniste Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in many British, US and European publications and in the anthology of 20th century Jewish poets, Voices Within the Ark (Avon, US, 1979). He has also published short stories in anthologies and magazines in the UK, the US and Poland. He has written many television scripts; a film, The Primitives; and a stage play, From The Ashes of Thebes.
Farhi's essay, "The Courage To Forget", appeared in Index on Censorship (Vol.24, No.2, 2005). "God Save Us From Religion", is included in the collection, Free Expression is No Offence (edited by Lisa Appignanesi, published by Penguin Books, 2005). "All History is the History of Migration", given at the “Know Your Place?” Conference in November 2005, was also published by Index on Censorship in 2006. Farhi's works have been translated into Arabic, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish.
Farhi has donated part of his personal library, consisting over 19.000 books, to Boğaziçi University.
For over twenty-five years Farhi has campaigned, from the ranks of English PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC), for writers persecuted and/or imprisoned by repressive regimes. Between 1994-1997, he served as Chair of the English WiPC; and between 1997–2000, as Chair of International P.E.N.’s Writers in Prison Committee. In November 2001, he was elected a Vice President of International PEN. He was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in June 16, 2001, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for services to literature. He is a Fellow of both The Royal Society of Literature and The Royal Geographical Society.
Farhi also briefly worked on the BBC science fiction adventure TV series Doctor Who during its early stages of production in 1963.
Farhi was married to the late Nina Farhi (née Gould), a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and has a stepdaughter, Rachel Sievers, a speech therapist. He is related to the late prominent businessman Üzeyir Garih.
Farhi has written several novels, including Children of the Rainbow and Journey through the Wilderness. Children of the Rainbow has received two prizes: the “Amico Rom” from the Associazione Them Romano of Italy (2002); and the “Special” prize from the Roma Academy of Culture and Sciences in Germany (2003). The French edition of Young Turk (Jeunes Turcs) received the 2007 Alberto Benveniste Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in many British, US and European publications and in the anthology of 20th century Jewish poets, Voices Within the Ark (Avon, US, 1979). He has also published short stories in anthologies and magazines in the UK, the US and Poland. He has written many television scripts; a film, The Primitives; and a stage play, From The Ashes of Thebes.
Farhi's essay, "The Courage To Forget", appeared in Index on Censorship (Vol.24, No.2, 2005). "God Save Us From Religion", is included in the collection, Free Expression is No Offence (edited by Lisa Appignanesi, published by Penguin Books, 2005). "All History is the History of Migration", given at the “Know Your Place?” Conference in November 2005, was also published by Index on Censorship in 2006. Farhi's works have been translated into Arabic, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish.
Farhi has donated part of his personal library, consisting over 19.000 books, to Boğaziçi University.
For over twenty-five years Farhi has campaigned, from the ranks of English PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC), for writers persecuted and/or imprisoned by repressive regimes. Between 1994-1997, he served as Chair of the English WiPC; and between 1997–2000, as Chair of International P.E.N.’s Writers in Prison Committee. In November 2001, he was elected a Vice President of International PEN. He was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in June 16, 2001, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for services to literature. He is a Fellow of both The Royal Society of Literature and The Royal Geographical Society.
Farhi also briefly worked on the BBC science fiction adventure TV series Doctor Who during its early stages of production in 1963.
Farhi was married to the late Nina Farhi (née Gould), a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and has a stepdaughter, Rachel Sievers, a speech therapist. He is related to the late prominent businessman Üzeyir Garih.
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May 24, 2016
This is 37m long. A short story about a world where you only love once. Either your love is retributed or else you die. After several days on it, the Doctor have everything to return ian and barbara to their own time. But unfortunally one men fell in love with Barbara but she doesn't understand what is going to happened. At the same time Susan is alerted that will happened and try to stop the Tardis to no avail. They all go and the boy died... Quite sad story in my opinion. I haven't read that many sad stories on the First Doctor "universe" if you will. This one has a sad ending... But it's too short ...
December 26, 2025
A very un-Doctor Who type of story, focused on cultural relationships and differences, but definitively dated to around the time that Marco Polo was being shown on TV. Moris Farhi wrote this single episode story as a "proof of concept" prior to taking on the idea of Alexander and Babylon for his next project. If it stands more as a curio, it's still fascinating to hear the TARDIS crew stretched in unexpected directions.
September 1, 2020
Barbara tries to stop a man from killing himself because she won't stay.
September 9, 2022
Oh hell yeah this is the good stuff. It’s packaged so you have to buy a really long really terrible story with it, but this story is just the best. One of my favorite 1st Doctor stories.
October 31, 2022
The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance is as peculiar as its title suggests. Fragrance is a paradise planet on which everyone who reaches maturity must be coupled with an opposite-sex counterpart or die in an actual form of sailing off into the burning sunset. Our TARDIS crew enters this world unaware of its peculiar social systems, and so Barbara unwittingly causes death and distress to the host family. It is a nice reminder that travel in the TARDIS will necessarily involve making howling cultural blunders that could have real and dire consequences. This one was paired with Farewell, Great Macedon, also by Maurice Farhi. What joins the two stories is their elegiac nature. Both stories are about long goodbyes. Confronting the deaths of loved ones is a persistent theme here. In both cases, Morris Farhi has chosen to write about the matter in a Shakespearean fashion, with death drawn out by eloquent speeches that give shape to grief. Farewell, Great Macedon and The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance strike long, pealing notes of the death bell almost from beginning to end. The funereal atmosphere hanging over the whole script may have been deemed as too emotional for the TV audience of the time. Still, in drama, in what other way is there to have us reflect on the losses we must all go through than to give characters the oratory power to express what in ordinary life is mostly inexpressible?
August 22, 2020
I was not expecting, with how brilliant and entertaining the first story was, that this one would be good as well. I was expecting that one might be just a fun and light romp, but there were was very poignant and very personal moments in this story that were surprisingly intimate. Was it as good as the first story? No, but to be fair that one has 6 episodes to develop, this has only the one. Still, it achieves an enormous amount in that single episode.
August 11, 2016
A short, lightweight story, pleasant enough listening, but with an unsatisfying conclusion. It could have had a better ending.
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