Sue Perkins Earpedia: Plants

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Sue Perkins Earpedia: Plants

By: Sue Perkins
Narrated by: Sue Perkins, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane
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Following on from her examination of the weird and wonderful animal kingdom, this second season of Earpedia sees comedian Sue Perkins presenting a series of audio guides to the planet's most useful, bizarre and interesting plants.

Join Sue as she explores the truly horrible welwitschia mirabilis, which looks like a gateway into the pit of hell, the stony lithops plant, which resembles a dog's testicles, the technically poisonous cocoa plant, the caveman's discovery of rubber, and how much of the Venus flytrap's diet is actually flies.

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Episodes
  • Ep. 1: Banana

    Ep. 1: Banana
    May 8 2018
    Sue Perkins presents a pocket-sized guide to the humble banana, the world's largest herb. Hear how they're available not just in yellow, but in red, orange and purple varieties, and discover that they have so much potassium in them that they're slightly radioactive.
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    13 mins
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  • Ep. 2: Welwitschia Mirabilis

    Ep. 2: Welwitschia Mirabilis
    May 8 2018
    Sue Perkins presents an audio guide to one of the world's ugliest plants, which resembles a huge jumble of fraying, dying leaves that have been carelessly dumped out of the back of a van onto the dusty, desert ground.
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    11 mins
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  • Ep. 3: Coconut

    Ep. 3: Coconut
    May 8 2018
    Sue Perkins presents a guide to the coconut. You might be thinking of piña coladas on the beach but the coconut itself is not only a tasty form of food and drink, but also a textile, a building material and so much more.
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    12 mins
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Because I come from Australia and trust me Australia isn’t the mad Max Fury is she’s making it out to me it’s worse but I like it 

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Excellent follow up to the first series about animals. Even more enjoyable because the plant kingdom is truly wild (pun intended)! It would be even better if they attached a PDF of all the plants that are discussed. This continues to be a fun mix short factoids and skits. I will always look forward to more of this series.

An informative series that keeps getting better!

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I really enjoyed this, as did my 10yr old. If you havent had a listen yet then I would recommend you do.

Marvelous listening

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it's just so cringey. the plant fun facts are great, but they're intermitted with the most tragic skits.

cringe fest. 25% plants 75% desperate 'comedy'

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Not overly informative, and tried too hard to be quicky and funny, frequently failing to be either.

Sorry but a bit too quirky for me

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