I met my first elephant in a story, Kipling's tale of the elephant's child, where "on the banks of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees" the elephant first got his trunk. I was hooked.
Almost everyone, it turns out, has an elephant story, from a book, a zoo, a circus or a trip overseas. And it's people's passion for the elephant that takes us on radio safari today.
They way they walk, they way they talk, but also the way we humans use them, exploit them, and revere them. From Sri Lanka's Pinnewala Elephant orphanage to Amboseli Kenya, our guests have watched and touched and listened to the conversations of elephants, searching for a closer understanding of an ancient fascination.
