with Desmond Morris and Sarah Kennedy
Does the American cowboy really ride the fastest horse on earth?
Why is the Queen Mother passionate about Buff
Orpingtons? Which birds do Arab sheikhs prize above oil? Desmond and Sarah find out when they follow in Chaucer's footsteps to Canterbury.
In the city that launched the RSPCA over 100 years ago, they learn that the British love of animals still produces the unexpected. En route, they joust with the horses that carried Richard the Lionheart to the Holy Land and encounter the chickens that roared and brought London to a standstill.
Sarah meets the pet that plays such a big role in the off-screen life of Wendy Craig.
She also experiences the joys of playing fostermother to a baby gorilla.
And John Aspinall explains why he has gambled everything for his love of the great apes that he says are superior to man.
Research JOANNA SARSBY Director DAVID WALLACE Producers IAN CHRISTIE
POLLY PHILLIPS
Editor DAVID MARTIN BBC Scotland
(Postponed from 2 April)
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