Alasdair Beckett-King
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1,752 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Alasdair Beckett-King’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why?
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The milkshaked silk monkey.
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So as they went on, they became much more finish.
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And so she went back to this book and rewrote it multiple times.
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And one of the things she did was she took out the exotic elements that don't belong in Finland, like a monkey and the palm trees and replaced the silk monkey with a kitten and replaced the other things with, you know, more sort of skis.
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Yeah, with with skis and um as far
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and and other well known Finnish elks things things
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What do you do for fun?
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I don't know.
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Hold back the Russian bear.
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Just resist the influx of communism.
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Collaborate with them.
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That's fine.
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Well, I did say it was fine there.
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I'm gonna actually put a little footnote there saying it's not fine.
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So the version you and I both read is the first English translation by Elizabeth Porch, who was a a friend of Tovy Janssen's.
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And since that was written, Jansen revised it several times.
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And this year, for the first time, there's a new English translation of the updated version.
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But we haven't read that, and neither has anyone else.
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Nobody who grew up reading this book will know that version of it.
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