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Trafalgar Season
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Monday 2.15pm,
17 October 2005 |
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A season of programmes to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar |
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Programme Details |
2.15pm Monday 17 October 2005 |
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Jim has brought Alice up to be resourceful. Having lost her mother at an early age, he feels it's important that she should know how to take care of herself and make the best of her brain. And she's doing well. Off to Cambridge in the Autumn. But Jim's plans may have to be put on hold because there has been an unexpected intervention. Rain. Heavy rain. Rain of the forty days and forty nights variety. Undeterred Jim and Alice have set off in a dinghy and made their way to Trafalgar Square in search of a man whom they feel may have useful skills - Lazarus, a Canadian escapologist in the best traditions of Houdini, who has been spending time in a cage on the top of Nelson's head.
While there Lazarus has been befriended by Pericles, a sentient pigeon who is a little smug that humans are at last experiencing the results of their predatory greed and may be about to be wiped out, just as pigeons have been threatened by mankind in the past. Lazarus thinks he's hallucinating as a result of the isolation but enjoys their conversations nonetheless.
Alice and Jim manage to extract Lazarus from his cage and bring him down to comparative safety on the plinth. Alice feeds Pericles on scraps of biscuits and it's clear that only Lazarus is privy to the pigeon's voice at this juncture. Alice questions Lazarus and is angry and disappointed when she finds that his illusions are just that. The trio have difficult discussions about what to do and where to go next during which it becomes clear that Alice blames Jim for her mother's suicide.
Just when the dispute has become most heated Lord Nelson's voice is heard and he intervenes to support Jim's proposal that the adventurers should set off to find dry land in the hope of founding a new colony for those who survive the flood. At the last moment it becomes clear that Jim intends Alice and Lazarus to go by themselves as the dinghy is too small for three. Alice protests but he dives into the waters and Nelson persuades Alice that she must respect her father's gift. Pericles returns with an olive on a scrap of pizza, the waters begin to recede and Alice starts the outboard motor.
CLINGING TO LORD NELSON features Elizabeth Ann O'Brien as Alice , Richard Mitchley as Jim, Jonathan Floyd as Lazarus, Laurence Allan as Pericles and Nigel Watson as Lord Nelson.
The producer and director is Gilly Adams .
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