BBC Radio broadcast Abraham Hannibal

(03/10/2006)

BBC Radio is broadcasting two Abraham Hannibal children's adventures this week as part of Black History Month 2006.

 

From Monday 2^nd to Saturday 7^th October, the BBC children’s programme The Bigtoe Radio Show is broadcasting daily instalments of Abraham Hannibal and the Raiders of the Sands and Abraham Hannibal and the Battle for the Throne by Frances Somers Cocks, read by Maynard Eziashi. Two episodes will be broadcast from 4.00 to 4.30 pm every day, except on Saturday, when four episodes will be broadcast, spread out between 4.00 and 6.00 pm.

 

“A lively, startlingly original adventure story … full of surprises”  

- Libby Purves

 

The two books tell the thrilling adventures, based on fact, of an African boy, Abraham Hannibal or ‘Gannibal’, who was captured as a slave and ended up in far-away Russia. Here he became rich, famous, and a general in the army - and the ancestor of “the Russian Shakespeare”, Alexander Pushkin.

You can listen to The Big Toe Radio Show via the BBC website, www.bbc.co.uk, or on BBC 7 (www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/bigtoe/) which you can find on: Freeview channel 708, digital satellite channel 0131, ntl: home channel 866 or Telewest channel 910

In order to research these two children’s books, Frances Somers Cocks retraced the footsteps of Abraham Hannibal (or ‘Gannibal’) from Africa to Russia, travelling by bus, lorry, boat, camel, train, motor-bike and taxi.

The two books, Abraham Hannibal and the Raiders of the Sands, (ISBN 0954403401, price £5.99) and Abraham Hannibal and the Battle for the Throne (ISBN 095440341X, price £6.99), are published by the Goldhawk Press.

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