Comments on: The Portrait Of A Tortoise

By: d davis

d davis — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:29:17 +0000

My husband and I just listened to this podcast and I adored it. I immediately decided I need to add to my library of crumbling and ill treated but loved old books, copies of this book and the original book by White. I also discovered, there was another famous Timothy the Tortoise, who has only just died a few years back, that lived out two wars and was aboard war ships. He spend the remainder of his days at Powderham castle, guest of the Earl of Devon. All very interesting. Thank you for what you do, please continue to do it!

By: Frank Key

Frank Key — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:39:02 +0000

R : I’m sure a podcast will become available. I will add a note to the post when it is.

By: R

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:03:27 +0000

Will this Chelonian escapade be available in Podcast form for those of us regrettably embroiled in other engagements at the time of the broadcast?

Surely Plautus the Tortoise in Sir T Stoppard’s ‘Arcadia’ owes his existence to White’s Timothy … as well as to the unfortunate tortoise, Pat, who gets trampled during the earlier ‘Jumpers’ by the same playwright.

There’s a good tortoise part in ‘Kafka’s Dick’ by Alan Bennett too (not so good, perhaps, if you happen to be the tortoise in question, who gets urinated upon).

Good subject for a pamphlet … West End Tortoises.

Or a Petshop Boys number.