Documentary telling the story of John Rendall and Ace Bourke who bought a lion cub from Harrods in 1969 before hand-rearing the animal at their club on the Kings Road in Chelsea. After the pair met Virginia McKenna of Born Free in 1971 they flew to Kenya to release the lion whom they named Christian into the wild.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In 2008 a clip posted on YouTube featuring an emotional reunion between a young lion and his owners became an internet sensation Overnight people wanted to know more about what lay behind this clip The two men in question Anthony &39;Ace&39; Bourke and John Rendall have published an updated bestselling version of their account of how they came to buy Christian the lion from a London department store in the late 60s They explain how they lived with the lion whilst working in a furniture shop down the King&39;s Road in what was then the tail end of the swinging 60s and how they eventually came to introduce their lion into the wild under the watchful eye of lion expert George Adamson For the first time this TV Special filmed in 2009 pulls together this amazing story using up to date interviews with many of those involved in this unique story It includes the original footage of Christian filmed in both London and Kenya the reunion between the three and exclusive new footage of a second reunion which was to be the last time the two men would see Christian Certificate Exempt from Classification Languages English
Feelgood documentary following the story of two Australians who bought a lion cub in Harrods in 1969. While running a furniture store on the King's Road during the swinging sixties, Anthony Bourke and John Rendall purchased the cub from the upmarket department store, which at the time was trading in exotic animals. They hand-reared the cub and named him Christian. Christian quickly became a local celebrity, and was often to be seen in the passenger seat of the pair's open-topped Bentley. Realising the time was fast approaching for Christian to return to the wild, Bourke and Rendall's chance meeting with Virginia McKenna of Born Free fame, led to Christian's eventual release in Kenya in 1971.
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