The keeper of a library sent. by a clerical error, to a ghost town in Northern Australia: a planter whose only communication was by radio, and played chess at a move a night: the consul's wife who studied fossils, and thought she could recognise the fossils of pygmies' private parts ...
David Attenborough tells PETER FRANCE about some of the ' characters ' he has met on his travels, and plays sounds and music they bring to mind. Producer DILYS BREESE
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)