BBC Radio 4 is to broadcast five 15 minute programmes
in a new series titled "The Real Just So Stories". The
first of these is "How the Elephant Got Its Trunk" and
will be broadcast at 9.30 am (British Summer Time) on
Monday 9 August. A description of the programmes
follows:
'Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories have enchanted
generations of children with their fanciful
explanations of how animals came by their peculiar
features. But natural historians, folklorists and
fossil experts have their own explanations.
In the first of a new series, Alistair McGowan
revisits the Kipling stories and asks how the elephant
really got its trunk? Other programmes in the series
look at the camel's hump, the giraffe's neck, the
whale's throat, and the zebra's stripes.'
Anyone who is not resident in the UK (and able to
receive FM or LW channels) can get it on the internet
from the following site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalradio/
and click on Radio 4.
If you miss it, it should also be possible to hear it
on the "Listen Again" webpage.
Other than BBC publicity, I know nothing about the
programmes.
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