Puppetry on Radio

[Chris]

Not Punch, but Shadow Puppetry, and on Radio but some may be interested in this
item from BBC Radio4's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" which features a Wayang Kulit figure from the 16th Century:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00tyr5v/A_History_of_the_World_in_100_Objects_Tolerance_and_Intolerance_%281550_1700_AD%29_Shadow_Puppet_of_Bima

It does link with Punch tangentially. Consider the explanation for the grotesqueness of the puppet, and its relationship to the similar grotesque nature of Muslim Turkey's Karuguez, Mr Punch's cousin.