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BBC R4 - Chrissie Gittins' 'Dinner in the Iguanodon'
Produced by Viv Beeby
Broadcast January 11, 2006
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

BBC Blurb
In 1854 a sumptuous banquet was served in the plaster-cast mould of
a prehistoric beast to celebrate the creation by Benjamin Waterhouse
Hawkins of 33 life-size dinosaurs in the new Crystal Palace Park - a
place where those same monsters still roam today.
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There are two themes to this play:

Mary Anning's role in developing palaeontology & fossil classification
into a science. She lived in Lyme Regis and had a detailed knowledge
of the' Jurassic Beach'.

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' creation of life size model dinosaurs for
Crystal Palace Park, and the dinner for twenty one held in the Iguanodon's
cast New Year's Eve, 1854.

Included are some illustrations of the models, the park, and the dinner.

Cast
Mary Anning  - Suzanna Hamilton
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins  - Philip Franks
Professor Richard Owen - Christian Rodska
Francis Fuller - Chris Serle
Connie - Sarah Counsell
Mrs King - Tina Gray
Jack - Alex Maclaren
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning
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Notes
i The horn on the iguanodon's nose was incorrectly located. We now
know that it was a claw.

ii About forty years ago, the father of a good friend of mine took
photographs of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs. He caused quite a
stir when he had the film developed at a processor's in Inverness.


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