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Bryan Seymour and Anthony ‘Ace’ Bourke

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The romance of wild creatures inspired some of the artists in the exhibition Printmaking in the age of romanticism, which included images of lions. Bryan Seymour, senior reporter at Today tonight, talks to Anthony ‘Ace’ Bourke, art curator and co-author of A lion called Christian, about the YouTube hit which features footage of Bourke and his friend John Rendall reuniting with their former pet lion some 40 years after introducing him into the Kenyan wild.