Cover picture by Robert Arnold. The early 1960s were a golden period for Malcolm Arnold. He was at his height as a composer for the concert hall and for the silver screen. As part of family life at this time, his daughter Katherine remembers visits with her father to London Zoo and Whipsnade, and it was as a result of one of these that she wrote a poem, The Peacock in the Zoo. Perhaps Katherine subconsciously had thoughts of her father as the peacock: a great public attraction, but sometimes a l...