Gepetto

Have you ever wondered what Pinocchio's dad Gepetto was getting up to during the events of Pinocchio? You haven't?! Well buckle up, because you're about to find out and it involves Julia Louis-Dreyfus doing an accent, a weirdo professor and his breeding machine and of course, Usher's gang of barbershop acrobat clowns.

Gepetto is a lonely toy maker who wishes for a son. But when the Blue Fairy gives him his longed for offspring by bringing one of his wooden puppets to life, Gepetto realises that he doesn't want Pinocchio after all, because the boy keeps doing things like asking him questions and playing with toys. But when Pinocchio runs away to join Stromboli's travelling show, Gepetto realises that Pinocchio is actually his property and sets out on a quest to get him back. Will Gepetto find Pinocchio and make amends? Des Drew Carey have somewhere else he'd rather be right now? And just how much of your genetic material needs to go into Professor Buonragazzo's machine? Listen and find out!

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