29 Mar 2019
Control Room with Mekki Leeper
Using only $1,000 over the course of one week, comedian Mekki Leeper sets out to fabricate an absurd alternative medicine company and fool the world into thinking it’s real.
Lucy the Human Chimp
Beyond nurture, what is our nature?
The profound story of Lucy Temerlin, a female chimpanzee raised as human from birth in a domestic environment, and Janis Carter, the woman who took on the seemingly impossible task of giving her a new life in the wild.
Top Billed Cast
Janis Carter Self
Lucy Temerlin Self
Lorna Nickson Brown Janis Carter
Matthew Brenher Dr. Maurice Temerlin
Jacinta Mulcahy Jane Tamerlin
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