![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories have remained popular, inspiring numerous adaptations, but their attitudes have been questioned by some parents and critics, who see them as a relic of Britain’s colonial past. The Jungle Books themselves were first published in 18, and they feature stories about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian Jungle. It’s for this reason that I will be taking part in a BBC Radio 3 Proms Plus talk on the subject, to be broadcast during the interval. Some of the music to be played at the Prom on the evening of 20 August will be Charles Koechlin’s Les Bandar-log, a piece that was part of his nearly life long effort to set the whole of The Jungle Book to music. Is Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book a simple allegory for colonial rule in India? Or is it about what it is to belong, and to be human? Ahead of her BBC Radio 3 talk to be broadcast during a Prom featuring music inspired by the book, Dr Sue Walsh provides her take on Mowgli’s famous adventures. ![]()
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