Big Pig, Little Pig (Omnibus)

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Big Pig, Little Pig

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After some years in rural France, Jacqueline and husband Ed think about getting pigs.

When an author and her husband moved to a small French hamlet, they embraced rural life acquiring pigs. Read by Imogen Stubbs.

When Jacqueline Yallop moves to south-west France with her husband, she embraces rural village life and buys two pigs to rear for slaughter. 

But as she gets to know the animals better, her English sentimentality threatens to get in the way and she begins to wonder if she can actually bring herself to kill them.

This is a memoir about that fateful decision, but it's also about the ethics of meat eating in the modern age, and whether we should know, respect and even love the animals we eat.

At its heart, this book is a love story, exploring Jacqueline's increasing attachment for her particular pigs, and celebrating the enduring closeness of humans and pigs over the centuries.

Written by Jacqueline Yallop.

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Amanda Hargreaves

Read by Imogen Stubbs

Producer: Jill Waters

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2017.

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