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Episode 8: Chapter 10: The Lobster Quadrille

Episode 8: Chapter 10: The Lobster Quadrille

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Though the Mock Turtle is crying almost too hard to talk, it manages to sob out that Alice has probably never heard of a Lobster Quadrille. When she agrees that she has not, the Mock Turtle becomes a vortex of energy. He and the Gryphon scream out instructions while "capering wildly about." With equal suddenness, they collapse and look mournfully at Alice. Then they dance solemnly around her, singing.
 
 The dancing over, they ask Alice to recite some lessons for them. She obediently does so, getting the words wrong. Then the Mock Turtle begins to weep out a song about turtle soup. In mid-song, someone calls, "The trial is starting!" The Gryphon takes Alice's hand and rushes her away.
 
 Chapter 10 is wonderfully read by:
 
  Elizabeth Bloom
  Ben Norris
  Jared Zeus
  Alexandra Metaxa
  Margaret Ashley
  Natalie Chisholm
  Eilidh Beaton
  Philip Labey
  Griff Rhys Jones
  Matthew Gravelle
  Michael Lumsden
  Cathy Smith
 Julia Winwood 

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