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Elephants All the Way Up by Lavinia Murray

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 3 months

Harper works in a zoo. He is a simple soul but his life is complicated.

His wife is desperate for a baby, and his angry dad is a bare knuckle boxer. Then the ground starts to shift - literally.

Last of a series of linked plays that start in a Register Office and end in either a birth, a marriage or a death.

Harper.............................Graeme Hawley
Yolanda...........................Kate Coogan
Dad.................................Seamus O'Neill
Carlos.............................Chris Jack
Arlo/Turtle.......................Lloyd Peters
Grayson/Turtle................Malcolm Raeburn
Woman/Turtle.................Lisa Allen

Surreal comedy written by Lavinia Murray

Directed by Gary Brown.

A BBC Cymru Wales production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Show less

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