A Beast With Two Backs

A Beast With Two Backs is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC1 on 20 November 1968 as part of The Wednesday Play strand. The play is a fictional account of an event that happened in the Forest of Dean in the 1890s when four Frenchmen came over the border from Gloucester with dancing bears, who were subsequently killed by miners coming off the late shift in retaliation for an unrelated attack on a young local girl.