Chrissie Gittins. Rozhlasová hra. Režie Viv Beeby.
Osoby a obsazení: Mary Anning (Suzanna Hamilton), Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (Philip Franks), profesor Richard Owen (Christian Rodska), paní Kingová (Tina Gray), Francis Fuller (Chris Serle), Connie (Sarah Counsell), Jack (Alex Maclaren).
Natočeno 2005. Premiéra 11. 1. 2006 (BBC Radio 4).
Pozn.: On New Year’s Eve 1854, 21 leading scientists sat down to a sumptuous seven course banquet – served in the plastercast mould of a prehistoric beast! They were there to celebrate the creation of 33 life-size dinosaurs in the new Crystal Palace Park – a place where those same monsters still roam today.
‘As flamboyant settings for dinner parties go you’d be hard pushed to beat eating seven courses inside the mould of a life-sized iguanodon. This drama is based on real events and captures the excitement and the exuberance of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins as he sees his superscaled work take shape. It also conveys the frustration of a working class woman from Dorset called Mary Anning. Without her years spent scouring the coast for fossils, Hawkins and his fellow palaeontologists, professional fossil collectors and scientists (including Darwin) would never have seen the material that helped in the birth of evolutionary theory, or, indeed, these beautiful plaster-cast dinosaurs.’ (……..Jane Anderson, Radio Times.)