A BBC Wales programme about the family History of the Wesh-born actor Michael Sheen had an interesting animal link .
A great-grandmother of his had been a lion-tamer with , I think , Bostocks and had toured America with them about 1900 before retiring to domestic life . The programme featured Jim Clubb , Circus Historian , of Heythrop , who had newspaper clippings of the lady . This sequence was filmed at Zippo's Circus , which it was pointed out , is animal-free . Jim reckoned she would have also worked with a mixed group of bears , wolves and hyenas , cheap to obtain and easier to manage and often presented . In those days there were few tigers in circuses .
A great-grandmother of his had been a lion-tamer with , I think , Bostocks and had toured America with them about 1900 before retiring to domestic life . The programme featured Jim Clubb , Circus Historian , of Heythrop , who had newspaper clippings of the lady . This sequence was filmed at Zippo's Circus , which it was pointed out , is animal-free . Jim reckoned she would have also worked with a mixed group of bears , wolves and hyenas , cheap to obtain and easier to manage and often presented . In those days there were few tigers in circuses .
