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Saturday Drama: Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio

Pinocchio

15/12/2012

Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio

Geppetto's wooden puppet miraculously comes to life.

4 Extra Debut. When Geppetto's wooden puppet miraculously comes to life, can Pinocchio find his way to become a real boy? Stars Ellis Hollins.

Carlo Collodi's classic tale of a wooden puppet who wants to be a boy dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.

When Geppetto's wooden puppet miraculously comes to life, Geppetto names him Pinocchio and imagines a bright future together. Pinocchio must understand what it is to be a boy and the first step is school. But danger and folly lurk around every corner and it is hard for Pinocchio to find the right path. The world is full of temptation, contradiction and fear. Will Pinocchio find his way to becoming a real boy?

Original Music by Olly Fox
Sound Design by Steve Brooke
Directed by Nadia Molinari.

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