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The Audio Long Read

The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run – podcast

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Dumba has spent her life performing in circuses around Europe, but in recent years animal rights activists have been campaigning to rescue her. When it looked like they might succeed, Dumba and her owners disappeared. By Laura Spinney. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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The Guardian Welcome to the Guardian Long Read, showcasing

0:41.2

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0:45.3

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0:49.8

long read.

0:51.8

The Elephant Vanishes.

0:54.0

Our circus family went on the run.

0:57.8

Dumbar has spent her life performing in circuses around Europe, but in recent years animal

1:03.0

rights activists have been campaigning to rescue her when it looked like they might succeed.

1:08.6

Dumbar and her owners disappeared.

1:12.1

By Laura Spinney.

1:13.8

Read by Ben Norris and produced by Esther Apocou Jenny.

1:19.2

One day in late September 2020, the Kludsky family, Ivonne, a slim blonde woman in her

1:25.2

60s, her husband George, who is over 80 but still fit and strong and their son Martin,

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