Episode 8: Chapter 10: The Lobster Quadrille

The Wonderland Challenge: Alice In Wonderland

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