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"On the ninety-minute drive to our camp we saw every animal that was in The Lion King and then some. They were just there, like ants at a picnic except they were elephants and giraffes. There were zebras and leopards and wildebeest and warthogs, all grazing or resting or fleeing on this grass-covered, seemingly limitless plane."

In the first story this week, "Trophy Room", David recalls his Kenyan wildlife safari with boyfriend, Hugh - enabling him to tick off another state on his seemingly endless list of visited countries. "We saw countless hippos in Kenya. 'All they want is to get into our swimming pool', the property manager, a man named Steven, told us. 'And if that happens, we will never get them out.'鈥�

David's second, shorter story is "22%", where he wrestles with the concept of tipping. The show finishes with some extracts from his daily diary - who would have thought that buying a German-English dictionary would be fraught with such confusion....

David Sedaris is a renowned American essayist - winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humour and member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Written and performed by David Sedaris
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Giddy Goat production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4