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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The other one, of course.
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That is still very relevant, but one of the things that seems quite dated about it is when Sniff sees the star symbols that start turning up all across the valley, he interprets it as a symbol of a secret society that is persecuting him, which is very, very mid twentieth century as a as a plot point.
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I don't think kids are terrified of persecution by secret societies these days.
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Yeah, th so it's interesting 'cause he's not trying to stop the comet, he's just trying to get more information about it. 'Cause what can you do really?
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Moomin Mama does a bit of a sort of Mrs.
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Beaver and loads them down with absolutely loads of stuff, including woolly stockings and an
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That they're going to need when they get to the lonely mountains.
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So Sniff and Moomin set off on on a raft down the river and run straight into some crocodiles.
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Which I assume she changed to a different animal when she rewrote it.
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What could eat Finnish child?
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Bears, I assume.
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Be yeah, a couple of wet bears.
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A a swan.
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A sw a swan.
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Yeah, no, I suppose a swan's a bit scary, but it's not crocodile scary, is it?
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No.
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If it was called Swan Dundee, that isn't cool.
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And they feed the woolly stockings to the crocodiles, which I actually think could easily choke an animal and Yeah, bad advice.
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They get past the crocodiles and they have pancakes for tea and then they enter a desert and they keep passing these little creatures called the Hatifatners.
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Hatifatners.
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