Dirty Beasts

The Dirty Beasts are truly horrid. There's the rumbling Tummy Beast, a not-as-stupid-as-he-looks pig, and the oh-so-vile Crocky-Wock the crocodile...

Dirty Beasts was published in 1983 and, with Revolting Rhymes, is another of Roald Dahl's classic collections of comic verse for children. In the nine poems included there are a host of wicked creatures getting up to some extraordinary things...

In 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned composer and conductor Benjamin Wallfisch to compose new orchestral works based on three of the poems included in Dirty Beasts. The world premiere of the pieces - The Anteater, The Porcupine and The Toad and the Snail - takes place in spring 2014.

The nine poems included in Dirty Beasts are:

• The Pig
• The Crocodile
• The Lion
• The Scorpion
• The Ant-Eater
  
• The Porcupine
• The Cow
• The Toad and the Snail
• The Tummy Beast