蜜芽传媒

Often ignored, overlooked or even feared, it's time to celebrate the humble little furry creature. Here we take a rodent's eye view to look at Mice, Rats and Squirrels.

Here our little furry friends are not just vermin, rather they are the heroes of children's literature by writers such as Beatrix Potter, EB White and Philippa Pearce. The rat becomes a metaphor for the writing of poetry in Don Paterson's The Rat, Nabokov's Pnin is followed around by a squirrel, and in Douglas Adam's Galaxy it's the mice who have been experimenting on us.

Readers: Louise Brealey and Solomon Israel
Producer: Jessica Treen