A great gale blows from Holland and with it comes a Large Copper Butterfly anxiously searching for a place to lay her eggs and so re-establish her family in the Broads. But her favorite food-plants in the fen are dying and her fabled beauty has caught the eye of an unscrupulous ‘nature lover’. Only the bravery and daring of one small girl can save her, but the child is herself a stranger who knows nothing of the fens and their wild and mysterious inhabitants…
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(Black and white photos by Philippe Mangen)
Commissioned by the Broads Authority in 1994. Created by Meg Amsden, Lynda Waterson, Colette Garrigan, Jayne Ivimey. Performed by Meg with Colette/Ali Monaghan/Suzanne Arnold.
By Meg Amsden, Colette Garrigan, Lynda Waterson, Jayne Ivimey, Ellie Rayner, Taraneh Jahanpour, and Suzanne Dawson.
Commissioned by the Broads Authority in 1994