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15 Minute Drama: Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper

15 Minute Drama: Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper: Episode 5

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The Elephant Keeper

Episode 5

Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper, Episode 5

Tom and Jenny have joined a menagerie in London, but Tom dreams of a better life.

Tom and Jenny have joined a menagerie in London, but Tom hatches a plan to escape and take Jenny back home. Stars Stuart McLoughlin.

Tom has fled to London where he and Jenny the Elephant are working in a seedy Menagerie. A country boy, he is shocked by the poverty and filth of the city. Then one day he thinks he sees his old sweetheart, Lizzie, in the streets and follows her. We soon see what this woman has become but for Tom in his loneliness and isolation, this is love. In this final episode of our adaptation of Christopher Nicolson's novel, Tom begins to hatch a plan to take the elephant back to her former home, the Indies. At last, he has hope of escape - of escaping England, his position in the class system, and all the violence and abuse - thanks to the elephant.

Adapted for radio by Elizabeth Burke

Tom ... Stuart McLoughlin
Lizzie ... Sarah Ovens
Lord Bidborough ... John Rowe
Mrs Harrington ... Claire Cage
Charles Singleton ... Matthew Gravelle

Producer: Kate McAll
BBC Cymru Wales.

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