The Little Prince
Author	Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Original title	Le Petit Prince
Translator	Katherine Woods, T.V.F. Cuffe, Irene Testot-Ferry, Alan Wakeman, Richard Howard
Illustrator	Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Cover artist	Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Language	French
Publisher	Gallimard
Publication date	1943
Published in English	1943
Followed by	'Le petit prince retrouvé (1997)

The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, is French aviator Antoine de Saint Exupéry's most famous novella, which he wrote in the United States while renting The Bevin House in Asharoken, New York, on Long Island. The novella includes a number of drawings by Saint-Exupéry himself, which are reproduced in most versions. Image File history File links LittlePrince. ... Antoine de Saint Exupéry[1] (pronounced ) (June 29, 1900 – July 31, 1944) was a French writer and aviator. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Éditions Gallimard is the second most important French publisher, and probably the most respected. ... For other uses, see Aviator (disambiguation). ... Antoine de Saint Exupéry[1] (pronounced ) (June 29, 1900 – July 31, 1944) was a French writer and aviator. ... A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ... The Bevin House, also known as the Delamater-Bevin Mansion, is a historic 22-room Victorian mansion located on the north shore of Long Island, at 77 Bevin Road, Asharoken, New York. ... Asharoken is a village located in Suffolk County, New York. ... This article is about the island in New York State. ...

The book has been translated into more than 180 languages and dialects so far. To date it has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. It is one of the top 50 best-selling books.^[1] It has been adapted into a movie musical by Lerner and Loewe, two different operas, as well as into an animated series. It is often used as a beginner's book for French language students. French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...

Katherine Woods' classic version (1943) was later followed by other translations, as her original version was shown to have several mistakes.^[2][3] Up to now, four more translations^[4] have been published:

• T.V.F. Cuffe (ISBN 978-0141185620, 1^st ed. 1995)
• Irene Testot-Ferry (ISBN 978-0756751890, 1^st ed. 1995)
• Alan Wakeman (ISBN 978-1862050662, 1^st ed. 1995)
• Richard Howard (ISBN 978-0152048044, 1^st ed. 2000)

Each of these translators do their best to approach the essence of the original, each with their own style and focuses.^[5][6]

Viewpoint

Ostensibly a children's book, it makes several profound and idealistic points about life and human nature. In it, Saint Exupéry tells of his being stranded in the Sahara Desert, thousands of kilometers away from inhabited places, where he meets a young extraterrestrial (though entirely human-appearing) prince. In their conversations, the author reveals his own views about the follies of mankind and the simple truths that people seem to forget as they grow older. The essence of the book is contained in the famous line uttered by the fox to the Little Prince: "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye). There are also two other main points in the book, both spoken by the fox. They are: "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" and "It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important." Childrens books redirects here. ...

Throughout the book, a child's view of the world, of the purpose of human life and of relations between people, (as represented by the Little Prince and partially by the narrator), is set off against the grown-ups' view (as revealed in memories of the narrator and in characters that the Little Prince meets on asteroids). But the author underscores that the "'grown-ups' are like that. One must not hold it against them. Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people." For other uses, see Asteroid (disambiguation). ...

Story

The Little Prince, drawn by Saint Exupéry himself, chapter II

Interleaved in the first nine chapters the narration's point of view changes from third person to first person. In the first eight days of the narrator being stranded in the desert, the Prince has been telling these stories to the narrator. The Little Prince. ... The Little Prince. ...

The Prince asks the narrator to draw a sheep. Not knowing how to draw a sheep, the narrator draws what he knows, a boa with an elephant in its stomach, a drawing which previous viewers mistook for a hat. "No! No!", exclaims the Prince. "I don't want a boa with an elephant inside! I want a sheep...". He tries a few sheep drawings, which the Prince rejects. Finally he draws a box, which he explains has the sheep inside. The Prince, who can see the sheep inside the box just as well as he can see the elephant in the boa, says "That's perfect". Species See text. ... This article is about the Korean pop singer. ... Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Elephas antiquus † Elephas beyeri † Elephas celebensis † Elephas cypriotes † Elephas ekorensis † Elephas falconeri † Elephas iolensis † Elephas planifrons † Elephas platycephalus † Elephas recki † Stegodon † Mammuthus † Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea...

The home asteroid of the Little Prince is introduced. He inhabits a house-sized planet, B612, which has three volcanoes (two active, and one dormant) and a rose. He spends his days caring for his asteroid, pulling out the baobab trees that are constantly trying to take root there. The trees will make his little planet turn to dust if they are not pulled out. The prince falls in love with the rose, but when he sees that she does not feel the same way he leaves to see what the rest of the universe is like, and visits six other asteroids (numbered from 325 to 330) each of which is inhabited by an adult who is foolish in his own way: Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska photographed from the International Space Station For other uses, see Volcano (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Rose (disambiguation). ... Species See text The baobab (Adansonia), or monkey bread tree are a genus of eight species of trees, native to Madagascar (the centre of diversity, with six species), and mainland Africa and Australia (one species in each). ...

• The King who can "control" the stars by ordering them to do what they would anyway. He then relates this to human subjects; it is the citizen's duty to obey, but only if the king's demands are reasonable. He orders the Prince to leave as his ambassador.
• The Conceited Man who wants to be admired by everyone, but lives alone on his planet. He cannot hear anything that is not a compliment.
• The Drunkard/Tippler who drinks to forget that he is ashamed of drinking.

The Businessman, chapter 13

• The Businessman who is constantly busy counting the stars he thinks he owns. He wishes to use them to buy more stars. The Prince then goes on to define property. The Prince owns the flower and volcanoes on his planet because he cares for them and they care for him. Because one cannot maintain the stars, he argues, the Businessman cannot own them.
• The Lamplighter who lives on an asteroid which rotates once a minute. Long ago, he was charged with the task of lighting the lamp at night and extinguishing it in the morning. At that point, the asteroid revolved at a reasonable rate, and he had time to rest. As time went on, the rotation sped up. Refusing to turn his back on his work, he now lights and extinguishes the lamp once a minute, getting no rest. The Prince actually empathizes with the Lamplighter, who is the only adult to care about something other than himself.
• The Geographer who spends all of his time making maps, but never leaves his desk to explore (even his own planet), going on the pretext that it is the job of an explorer to do so. Even if an explorer were to visit the Geographer, the Geographer is very doubting of any explorer's character and would most likely disregard the report. He doesn't trust things he hasn't seen with his own eyes, yet will not leave his desk. Out of professional interest, the geographer asks the Prince to describe his asteroid. The Prince describes the volcanoes and the rose. "We don't record flowers", says the geographer, because they are only ephemeral. The Prince is shocked and hurt to learn that his flower will someday be gone. The geographer then recommends that he visit the Earth.

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The visit to Earth

Chapter 16 begins: "So then the seventh planet was the Earth". On the Earth, he starts out in the desert and meets a snake that claims to have the power to return him to his home planet (A clever way to say that he can kill people, thus "Sending anyone he wishes back to the land from whence he came.") The Prince meets a desert-flower and climbs a mountain. The Prince sees a whole row of rosebushes, and is downcast because he thought that his was the only one in the whole universe. Chapter 21 is the author's statement about human love in that the Prince then meets and tames a fox, who explains to the Prince that his rose is unique and special, because she is the one that he loves. The Prince then meets a railway switchman and a merchant who are as non-self-aware and non-philosophical as the other adults encountered earlier. In Chapter 24, the narrator's point of view changes again from third person to first person, as the narrator is dying of thirst, but then they find a well. After some thought, the Prince bids an emotional farewell to the narrator, explaining to him that while it will look as though he has died, he has not, but rather that his body is too heavy to take with him to his planet. He tells the narrator that it was wrong of the narrator to come and watch, as it will make him sad. The Prince then allows the snake to bite him. The next morning when the narrator looks for the Prince, he finds his body has disappeared. The story ends with a portrait of the landscape where the meeting of the Prince and the narrator took place and where the snake took the Prince's life. The narrator also makes a plea that anyone encountering a strange child in that area who refuses to answer questions to contact the narrator immediately. This article is about the animal. ...

The Little Prince is represented as having been on Earth for one year, and the narrator ends the story seven years after he is rescued from the desert.

Inspiration

In The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry talks about being marooned in the desert in a damaged aircraft. Without doubt, this account was drawn from his own experience in the Sahara. He also writes about this ordeal, in detail, in his book Wind, Sand and Stars. Wind, Sand and Stars (French title:Terre des hommes (Earth of Humanity)) is a memoir by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry published in 1939. ...

On December 30, 1935 at 14:45, after an 18 hour and 36 minute flight, Saint-Exupéry, along with his navigator André Prévot, crashed in the Libyan Sahara desert en route to Saigon. They were attempting to fly from Paris to Saigon faster than anyone before them had for a prize of 150,000 francs. Their plane was a Caudron C-600 Simoun n° 7042 (serial F-ANRY). Supposedly, the crash site is located in the Wadi Natrum. Both of them had survived the crash, but they were then faced with rapid dehydration in the Sahara. Their maps were primitive and ambiguous. Lost in the desert with a few grapes, a single orange, and some wine, the duo had only one day's worth of liquids. After that day, they had nothing. Both men began to see mirages, which were quickly followed by more vivid hallucinations. Sometime between the second and the third day, the two were so dehydrated that they stopped sweating altogether. Finally, on the fourth day, a Bedouin on a camel discovered them and administered native dehydration treatment that saved Saint-Exupéry and Prévot's lives. is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành Chí Minh) is the largest city in Vietnam, located near the delta of the Mekong River. ... A French aircraft company, founded in 1909 and spanning both world wars. ... The Caudron Simoun was a four-seat touring monoplane produced in the 1930s. ...

In the desert, Saint-Exupéry had met a fennec (desert sand fox), which had most likely inspired him to create the fox character in the book. In a 1918 letter that he had written to his sister Didi from Cape Juby, he tells her about raising a fennec that he adored. Binomial name (Zimmermann, 1780) Fennec fox range Synonyms Fennecus zerda Zimmermann, 1780 For the aircraft, see T-28 Trojan The fennec fox is a small fox found in the Sahara Desert of North Africa (excluding the coast) and in some parts of Arabia, which has distinctive oversized ears. ... Cape Juby is a cape on the coast of southern Morocco, near its border with Western Sahara, directly east of the Canary Islands. ...

Patachou, Petit Garçon, by Tristan Derème, is another probable influence for The Little Prince.^[7] Patachou, Petit Garçon is a collection of articles, prose, and poems by Tristan Derème about the everyday life of a curious and mischievous child. ... Tristan Derème (February 13, 1889 – October 24, 1941), born Philippe Huc, was a French poet and writer. ...

Antoine may have drawn inspiration for the Little Prince's appearance from himself as a youth. Friends and family would call him "le Roi-Soleil" ("Sun King"), due to his golden curly hair.

The Little Prince's reassurance to the Pilot that his dying body is only an empty shell resembles the words of Antoine's younger brother François's last words: "Don't worry. I'm all right. I can't help it. It's my body" (Airman's Odyssey).

Astronomy

In 2003, a small asteroid moon, Petit-Prince (discovered in 1998), was named after the Little Prince. 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl An asteroid moon is an asteroid that orbits another asteroid. ... Petit-Prince orbiting Eugenia Petit-Prince is an asteroid moon that orbits the larger asteroid 45 Eugenia. ...

There is an asteroid called 46610 Bésixdouze, which is French for "B-six-twelve". B612 was the name given the asteroid which the Little Prince lived on. In addition, the asteroid's number, 46610, is written B612 in hexadecimal notation. The Little Prince, drawn by Saint-Exupéry himself, chapter II The Little Prince (French Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, is French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupérys most famous novel, which he wrote while staying at a hotel in New York. ... In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal, base-16, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16, usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F, or a–f. ...

In addition, asteroid 2578 Saint-Exupéry was named after the author of The Little Prince. 2578 Saint-Exupéry is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Tamara M. Smirnova on November 2, 1975. ...

With a need for holding six digits of information in five digit fields for the number of real asteroids, it is now possible to have an actual asteroid designated similarly to B612: B0612. The asteroid (110612) 2001 TA₁₄₂ is listed as (B0612) 2001 TA₁₄₂ in the compacted lists that use A=10, B=11, etc. to extend the existing five-digit fields in many asteroid software databases.

The B612 Foundation plans to experimentally alter the orbit of an asteroid to demonstrate that the deflection of an Earth-crossing asteroid is feasible. The B612 Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to protecting the Earth from asteroid strikes. ...

Sequels

In 1997, Jean-Pierre Davids wrote a sort-of sequel named Le petit prince retrouvé ('The Little Prince Returns'). In this version, the narrator is a shipwrecked man who encounters the Little Prince on a lone island; the Prince has returned to find help against a tiger who threatens his sheep. ^[8]

Another sequel titled The Return of the Little Prince was written by former actress Ysatis de Saint-Simone, niece of Consuelo de Saint Exupery^[9]

References in popular culture

• The videogame Katamari Damacy is overtly based on this story, as the main character is the diminutive prince of the cosmos, while the menu system is a little planet.
• In The Book "One Child" by Torey Hayden, Sheila is read to from this book.
• In the Futurama episode "The Route of All Evil", the kids Cubert and Dwight get a space paper route and can be seen delivering newspapers to The Little Prince in an asteroid belt. He is later seen being knocked from his asteroid by a newspaper, into space, where he cries 'au revoir!'
• Kalan Porter, winner of Canadian Idol, was nicknamed "The Little Prince" due to his resemblance to the character.
• In the Australian Soap Opera Neighbours during the 1987 Brain-tumor storyline, The Little Prince was discussed as being owned by Lucy Robinson (Sasha Close) and as being her favorite book.
• In the animated series The Tick, villain character Omnipotus, an eater of planets, is at one point seen devouring the asteroid the Little Prince inhabits.
• In the classic space adventure game Star Control II, a constellation is described as "the snake-like creature who has swallowed the elephantine beast", a reference to the elephant-digesting boa constrictor from the Little Prince.
• Morrissey is seen reading the book in the music video for his song "Suedehead", though his affection for the novel almost certainly stems from his admiration of James Dean.
• In the film My Dinner with Andre, the eponymous character, a director of stage plays, declares that he sees fascist overtones in The Little Prince.
• In the newspaper parody website The Onion, the plot of the story is related as personal experience by the ghostly founder of the newspaper in an opinion column.
• In Regina Spektor's song "Baobabs," many references are made to the story of The Little Prince.
• In a photograph featuring Frank Zappa at home, copies of The Little Prince and Bible can be seen on the shelf.
• In 2005, the book was translated into Toba, an indigenous language of Argentina, as So Shiyaxauolec Nta'a. It was the first book translated into this language since the Bible.
• The book is one of few modern books to be translated into Latin, as Regulus.
• The actor James Dean was so fond of the book he actually memorized most of its passages.
• Mister Rogers was a fan of the book and had the quote "l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux" framed in his office.
• Before France adopted the Euro as its currency, St.-Exupéry and The Little Prince were on the French 50 franc banknote...at the time roughly equivalent to US$10-12. One of the anticounterfiting measures on the banknote was microprinted text from "Le Petit Prince", visible with a strong magnifying glass.
• In the music video for Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence", the visual imagery is very close to the themes and storyline of the book. The most prominent being lead singer David Gahan being dressed like the King along with many displays of a rose, not only in the video, but on the actual album and single covers as well.
• In the Filipino movie "Let The Love Begin" starring Richard Gutierrez and Angel Locsin, Richard gives the book to Angel saying that it has been one of his favorites as a child.
• In the French movie Les Trois Frères, a passage from The Little Prince leads the characters to cry. They then mock it to hide their embarrassment.
• The Little Prince is the inspiration behind the name of the internationally famed online book club known as Elephant in the Snake.
• In the novel titled Dance With The Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon, the author makes numerous references throughout the book about "The Little Prince".
• In episode 11 of the first season of One Tree Hill - 'The Living Years' - Lucas quotes in a voice over "And the Little Prince said to the Man 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them'"
• In the anime Prince of Tennis one of the characters, Fuji Syuusuke, always carries a copy of "The Little Prince" in his backpack.
• The Astroboy manga story "Astro II" opens with a picture of Astroboy dressed up like The Little Prince.
• In Gundam Wing, Relena Peacecraft likens Heero Yuy to The Little Prince after he falls to Earth from outer space.
• In Hoshizora Kiseki, near the end, an english dictionary cover shows a The Little Prince allusive picture.
• In the browser-based game Kingdom of Loathing, there used to be a time when players could look through a telescope in an observatory and see the asteroid of the prince, complete with volcanoes, a baobab tree, the Prince himself.

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Adaptations in other media

Music

• Arizona Post-Rap aritst, KonGeror references The Little Prince in the song "Killing Kids". This song sparked and inspired the album titled "Raphood & Authenticity". The lyrics read "I'm like the little prince constantly wondering / Coming up on people who have been taught to keep stumbling / Onward stuck in a groove like a needle..." Music Page
• Arizona folk-punk act, Andrew Jackson Jihad has a song on their split CD with Ghost Mice entitled "El Principito (The Little Prince)". The chorus refers to the Prince's journey: "I'd like to take advantage/of a flock of wild birds/to make my escape/from this planet"
• An Israeli song written by Yehonathan Gefen, with music by Shem Tov Levy, made the Little Prince into a fallen soldier: "Tjhe Little Prince from Company B / Will never again see a sheep eating a flower..." Hebrew lyrics.
• Anti-Folk singer/pianist Regina Spektor has a song entitled "Baobabs", the entire song referring to The Little Prince and the effect it has on its readers.
• French singer Mylene Farmer has recorded a song, "Dessine-moi un Mouton", which refers to the Little Prince.
• Russian rock band Mashina Vremeni played a concert program in 1979-1980. It was called The Little Prince and included intersong quotations from the book. The whole concept of the program (the live version was released in 2000) was based on the story and the philosophy of the book.
• The Spanish band, La Oreja De Van Gogh, quote a line from The Little Prince in their song, Dicen Que Dicen: "Lo que hace bello al desierto es que guarda agua en su interior" (What makes the desert beautiful is that it keeps water within itself).
• Brian Wilson, founder and guiding light of The Beach Boys and latterly a successful solo artist, said in a June, 2007 interview that he has been collaborating with Van Dyke Parks, the composer who provided the lyrics for Wilson's acclaimed "Smile", on a new musical work entitled "Lucky Old Sun". Wilson said that it will be an adaptation in music of The Little Prince. The work will be divided into four sections, with Wilson himself providing the narration. However, when the work premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall in September 2007, there was no discernable connection with The Little (Prince) whatsoever.
• The song "Little Prince" was released by American Alternative Goth Rock band Psychotica on their self titled release.
• Jonatan Cerrada performing for France in Eurovision Song Contest 2004 presented his performance of the song A Chaque Pas as an adaptation of the Little Prince, with him playing the title character and the narrator being represented by a dancer on stilts. The song reflected the story's lessons about greed, love and selflessness.
• The Kitchens of Distinction had a track on their final album Cowboys and Aliens called Prince of Mars, which was loosely based on the story.
• Shim Chang Min of TVXQ dressed up as The Little Prince for one of their songs, "Balloons".
• The music video for Depeche Modes Enjoy the Silence bears reaseblance to the story.
• German techno band Scooter paraphrased a line from the book in their song "Weekend!" (What is essential is invisible to the eye/It's only with the heart that you can see rightly).
• The Rammstein song Mann gegen Mann mentions the Little Prince in one of the lines. "trag ich den kleinen Prinz im Sinn" (I keep the Little Prince in mind).

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Film and Television

• In the 1940s/50s, Walt Disney considered making The Little Prince into an animated movie, but due to some problems, it was never produced.
• In 1966 Soviet Lithuanian film Malenkiy prints was made by Arūnas Žebriūnas.
• A film musical adaptation titled The Little Prince was made in 1974. This film is notable chiefly in that it marked the final collaboration of composer Frederick Loewe and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. The authors were dissatisfied with the film's Hollywood treatment. Loewe refused to visit London to supervise the arrangement and recording of the score. The film was unsuccessful at the box office, but has become somewhat of a cult classic and is again available.
• In 1979, Will Vinton Studios produced a claymation adaptation of the book. This short feature, narrated by actor Cliff Robertson, was one of Vinton's first claymation productions.
• The Adventures of The Little Prince, a Japanese anime series based on the book, aired in Europe and North America in the 1980s. The show was made by the Knack animation studio and first aired in Japan in 1978 under the title Hoshi no Ojisama Puchi Puransu (Prince of the Stars: Petit Prince). In it, the Little Prince often traveled to Earth to help people. During the 1980s, the English-language version was aired in the United States on Nickelodeon, as internationally-produced animation often was. The English version featured Julie Dees (later voiced by veteran voice actress Katie Leigh) in the role of the Little Prince and is available on DVD from Koch Vision.
• Der Kleine Prinz is a cartoon animation of the book produced by German director Theo Kerp and released in 1990.
• In the short tale, "Kazari and Yoko," of the Japanese horror series, "Zoo," the kind woman gives Yoko the story of "The Little Prince" as a keepsake.

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Theatre

• An audio adaptation was made in 1954, with the French actor Gérard Philipe as the narrator, Jacques Grello as the fox, and Georges Poujouly as the Little Prince.
• A 1981 musical theatre adaptation entitled The Little Prince and the Aviator closed prior to its Broadway opening.
• A French-language musical, Le Petit Prince, by composer Richard Cocciante, ran at the Casino de Paris from October 2002 to January 2003. Daniel Lavoie played the Pilot while Jeff Tetedoie played the Little Prince. It was revived at Shanghai Oriental Art Centre in July 2007, and in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in January 2008.^[10]
• A play adaptation, The Little Prince, was written by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar in 2000.
• The book was adapted into the play "The Little Prince" by Andy Arden Reese in 2007.

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Opera

• Russian composer Lev Knipper composed an opera, The Little Prince in 1964.
• An opera, The Little Prince, based on the book was composed by Rachel Portman. It had its stage premiere in 2003 at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas starring Nate Irvin as the Prince and Teddy Tahu Rhodes in the role of the Pilot. It was broadcast on BBC2 in the UK on 27 November 2004 as a studio-filmed production starring Joseph McManners as the Prince and Teddy Tahu Rhodes as the Pilot.
• Another 2003 opera, The Little Prince, composed by the German composer Nikolaus Schapfl, premiered in Salzburg in 2003 after first obtaining the rights by the author's heirs in 1998.^{[citation needed]} The opera is in two acts and calls for 11 soloists, chorus and orchestra. It has remained popular. As of 2007, it has been performed in seven other European Cities by five different orchestras and ensembles. In 2005 it was broadcast by the Bavarian Classic Radio.

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Radio

• BBC Radio 4 broadcast on 1st January 2000 a dramatisation by Bonnie Greer of a new translation into English of The Little Prince. It starred Robert Powell as the aviator and narrator, Garrett Moore as the Little Prince, and Bernard Cribbins as the king, the drunkard, and the lamplighter. An audio cassette recording is available in the BBC Radio Collection series.

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References

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