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Article: Altogether a tame tale; esreview.(Television Program Review)
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 15, 2004
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Byline: VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH
Family Ties BBC4 NEVER work with animals or children, they say, and I wholeheartedly agree with the latter proposition, because kids are just noisy little adults who don't pay rent.
But animals can be great to work with (or, more accurately, to experiment upon), and when I'm not performing skin grafts on pigs by covering their minor cuts and grazes with rashers of bacon, I'm busy developing new zoological hybrids, in the furtherance of science and for my own amusement.
Just last week, I crossed a dog with a skeleton to produce a mutt that buries itself in the garden, and crossed an edentate mammal of the Dasypodidae ...