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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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I was worried that the plants series would be less entertaining than the animals one. I was wrong. the set up of short podcasts, highlights of information and sketches inbetween keep this light, funny and something happy to listen to again and again. really a pity there are only two series.

Short, punchy, entertaining and informative!

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I'm really enjoying this series. It's very easy to listen to. very clear narration. some funny bits of sillyness, but occasionally they go on to long.

light hearted and interesting

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Really enjoyed this podcast.Great performance :) Who would have thought flora is such a fun :D

Funny :)

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Some facts that came as quite a surprise. Did you know that bananas are herbs? All the better for a typically amusing performance by Ms Perkings.

Interesting and funny

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I am really like this podcast. nice content. fantastic and excellent narration in this content.

Great!

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I thoroughly enjoyed these, learnt some new things and revisited old friends. Love Sue Perkins!

Fun and interesting

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Similar to the animal series this is very entertaining and amusing. I really enjoyed it whilst learning about plants is a tongue-in-cheek way.

entertaining

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Loved the format of this. It was crazy funny. More entertaining than basic plant books yet actually informative.
Please do more of these.

FAB

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I don't know what it is about this book, but I never hear a chapter to the end. What I hear is very interesting and seems witty. But I always fall asleep, so as someone who struggled to sleep, thank you

Very good for putting me to sleep.

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Sue Perkins is an amazing narrator. I'll definitely look up other things of her.
Next to Sue you have the other voices whitch are a great addition to the story and just such fun to listen too.
The complete series is simply GENIUS!

Just loved it!!!!

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