Main content

2: Crime-solving brambles and radioactive houseplants

Episode 2 of 6

Join Sue Perkins for her award-winning comedy series Nature Table: the funny ‘show & tell’ series celebrating the natural world and all its funny eccentricities.

In this episode, Sue and the Nature Table team visit Kew Gardens for an entertaining botanical special.

Crime-solving brambles, radioactive houseplants, scheming water lilies, hallucinogenic flowers and life-saving seagrass all feature and wow Sue and the invited audience.

Sue is joined by special guests: ethnobotanist James Wong, forensic botanist Mark Spencer and comedian Lucy Porter.

Nature Table has a simple clear brief: to positively celebrate and promote the importance of all our planet’s wonderfully wild flora and fauna in a fun and easily grasped way... whilst at the same time having a proper giggle.

For this series of Sue Perkins’ ARIA-winning ‘Show and Tell’ wildlife comedy, Team Nature Table have recorded at the Natural History Museum, Kew Gardens and London Zoo.

Hosted by: Sue Perkins
Guests: James Wong, Mark Spencer & Lucy Porter
Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Jenny Laville & Jon Hunter
Additional material by: Christina Riggs & Pete Tellouche
Researcher: Catherine Beazley
Sound Recordist & Editor: Jerry Peal
Music by: Ben Mirin
Executive Producer: Richard Morris
Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls
Producer: Simon Nicholls

An EcoAudio certified production
A 91Èȱ¬ Studios Audio Production for Radio 4

Available now

28 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Sun 9 Jun 2024 16:30
  • Sat 15 Jun 2024 23:30