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Season 1 • Episode 357: Animal Night: Sacred Elephant • Watch with subtitles
Episode 357: Animal Night: Sacred Elephant
December 16, 1989
A film version of Heathcote Williams 's epic poem, an impassioned hymn of praise to one of nature's most magnificent creatures, and a lament at man's folly of hunting it to near extinction. The poem is read by its author, intercut with extraordinary film of elephants, and accompanied by a specially composed soundtrack from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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