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Touching the Elephant

4 Extra Debut. Kim Normanton hears the reactions of four blind people when they first encounter an elephant up close at London Zoo.

**** This programme was suggested by Graeme Fraser as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Weekend ****

Meet a woman who loves animals, a sex-mad computer whizz, a piano-tuner and an imaginative child.

Each person is blind.

Never having encountered an elephant, they talk about what kind of a beast it might be.

When they are given the opportunity to touch one at London Zoo, each person has a very different reaction.

Presented by Kim Normanton.

Producer: Matt Thompson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1997.

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25 minutes

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