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CHRISTMAS
T just would not be Christmas without an adaptation of a Julia Donaldson book, and this year brings us the delights of Zog.
The story is about a clumsy dragon who needs a bit of help at Dragon School and finds it in the shape of a young lady who doesn’t fancy settling down with a man because she wants to be a doctor.
Zog is a keen pupil and tries hard to learn to fly, roar and breathe fire. But every year the gold star eludes him thanks to his mishaps. A kind young girl with medical ambitions finds him and patches up his bumps and bruises. Then in Year Four all the young dragons are instructed to capture a princess.
Again, Zog falls short. When he meets the kindly girl again, she reveals she is, in fact, a princess. Desperate to escape the confines of her strict palace upbringing, she allows Zog to ‘capture’ her. He finally wins the coveted golden star.
In Year Five the dragons learn to fight, at which moment a bumbling knight, Sir Gadabout The creators of the Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler – bring to life another classic character, learner dragon Zog, this Christmas the Great, arrives, claiming he is narrated by Sir Lenny Henry and going to rescue Princess Pearl. Zog also featuring the vocal talents of and Gadabout square up for a fight Tracey Ullman as Madame Dragon, over who gets the princess. Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington
At that moment, Pearl tells them as Sir Gadabout and Patsy Ferran as off for fighting, and reveals she Princess Pearl. doesn’t want to be a princess, she Sir Lenny wants instead to be a doctor. says of the
Realising his chance to change his story: destiny as well, Gadabout asks if “There’s a she’ll train him up too. Pearl even cast of brilliant works out how to include Zog as actors and the story their special flying ambulance. is silly, and
Outnumbered star Hugh Skinner, outrageous, and who voices Zog, says: “I’m a huge fan surreal, and I like all of Julia Donaldson and Axel of those things!” Schleffer’s books and Zog is a hell of Tracey adds: “What a guy, so I really couldn’t believe I like about this project is my luck when I got asked to voice that it has a real generosity. this accident-prone, orange Christmas schedules on the BBC are dragon. The book has a fantastic so special in the UK. The tradition of message about not being afraid ‘appointment TV’ and the family to be different, so I was coming together is lovely.” thrilled to be a part of it.”
It’s an all star cast,