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1978: Down Among The Donkeys | Network | BBC Archive
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27:02Now PlayingAngela Rippon investigates the remarkable story of how one woman, Betty Svendsen, devotes almost her whole life to caring for donkeys. At the sanctuary at Sidmouth, in South Devon, she looks after over 400 donkeys. The sanctuary is now a registered charity and Mrs Svendsen has had to buy two farms to provide enough ground for the animals. Some of the donkeys are brought in by people who can no longer afford them as pets, but many have been the victim of gross cruelty and neglect - sometimes misused on the beaches, sometimes driven to exhaustion on scrap heaps.
Clip taken from Network: Down Among the Donkeys, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 1 July, 1978.
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