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Brett Westwood meets a rhinoceros nose to nose and is blown away - by the sense of wonder engendered by this prehistoric-looking yet gentle and water-loving animal.

Brett Westwood meets a rhinoceros nose to nose and is blown away - by the sense of wonder engendered by this prehistoric-looking yet gentle and water-loving animal. Rhinos are now being wiped out at a frightening rate but when they first arrived in Europe they were hailed as the unicorn made manifest. With the help of zoologist Mark Carwardine, author of The Pope's Rhinoceros Lawrence Norfolk, rhino historian Kelly Enright and poet Kate Sutherland Brett traces the strange history of the relationship between rhinoceros and man.
With readings by Lia Williams of extracts from Rhinoceros Odyssey from How to Draw A Rhinoceros by Kate Sutherland, and Rhinoceros by Adrian Stoutenburg.

Producer Beth O'Dea.

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Mark Carwardine

is a zoologist, an outspoken conservationist, an award-winning writer, a TV and radio presenter, a widely published wildlife photographer, a best-selling author, a wildlife tour operator and leader, and a magazine columnist.

Mark presented the six-part 91热爆-TV series Last Chance to See with actor and comedian Stephen Fry in search of endangered species as they followed in the footsteps of a similar journey Mark made with Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy, 20 years earlier.

He has also written more than 50 books on a variety of wildlife, travel and conservation subjects and presented the聽weekly half-hour programme Nature on 91热爆 Radio 4 and the daily Environment News bulletin for Steve Wright in the Afternoon, on 91热爆 Radio 1.

Dr Kelly Enright

Kelly Enright is the author of聽,聽Maximum of Wilderness: The Jungle in the American Imagination and Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure. She also wrote one volume in the America鈥檚 Natural Places series, Rocky Mountains & Great Plains. Her work focuses on portrayals of nature in American culture, human-animal relationships, museums, and travels.聽

She is聽Assistant Professor of History, Director of Public History at the at St Flagler College in Florida, USA and is聽currently examining memorials to extinct species.

Lawrence Norfolk

Lawrence Norfolk is the author of聽 (1996), Lempriere鈥檚 Dictionary (1991), which was praised by Malcolm Bradbury as 鈥榦ne of the finest novels of the Nineties鈥檃nd In the Shape of a Boar (2000). These three books have been translated into 24 languages.

He is a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Budapest Festival Prize for Literature. His books have been shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Award and the Wingate / Jewish Quarterly Prize for Literature. His latest novel is John Saturnall鈥檚 Feast (2012).

Professor Kate Sutherland

Kate Sutherland is a Associate Professor at Osgoode Law School in Toronto, Canada and is author of the poetry collection 's', which was nominated for an Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) creative writing award.聽

She has written several literary pieces, including 鈥淭he Necklace鈥 in The New Quarterly, Winter (1997), Summer Reading: A Collection of Short Fiction (Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1995), and 鈥淟ucia鈥 in Prairie Fire (1992).

Shelley Tudor

Shelley has worked at for 21 years. She initially completed her work experience at the Park as a school student, where she then went on to study Animal Management at college. After gaining her qualifications, she joined the Wildlife Team and has worked her way up the ranks to her present position of Deputy Head Keeper of Asian Ungulates.

She has worked with one-horned rhinos since they first came to the park in early 2010 and adores each of the rhinos with their individual characteristics and unique quirks. Looking after them is hard work but very rewarding, and Shelley looks forward to going to work to see them each day.

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