A Lion Called Christian

In 2008 a clip posted on YouTube featuring an emotional reunion between a young lion and his owners became an internet sensation Overnight people wanted to know more about what lay behind this clip The two men in question Anthony Ace Bourke and John Rendall have published an updated bestselling version of their account of how they came to buy Christian the lion from a London department store in the late 60s They explain how they lived with the lion whilst working in a furniture shop down the Kings Road in what was then the tail end of the swinging 60s and how they eventually came to introduce their lion into the wild under the watchful eye of lion expert George Adamson