Touching the Elephant was a BBC documentary about perception, first broadcast on 16 April 1997, in which four blind people are taken to meet and touch an elephant. The idea was a response to a well-known fable about blind men and an elephant. Presenter Kim Normanton and the participants – Danni, a woman who loves animals; Graham, a computer buff; Tom, a piano tuner; and 10-year-old Lauren – discuss their idea of ‘elephant’ before meeting Dilberta the elephant at London Zoo.Observer Life, 13 April 1997, p. 69 Excerpts of this documentary were aired on BBC Radio 4's "Beasts" episode of Short Cuts.
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