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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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Interesting nature facts and funny but some content inappropriate for kids. Word word word word

Not for kids

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Great in small doses but since episodes are like 15 minutes at most it is perfect. I like Sue Perkins humor she includes everybody and no one is the butt of her comedy. Thanks for the fun Sue.

It funformitive. But for adults.

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A hilarious and entertaining series teaching interesting facts about various plants. Definitely not for young children because of language and some mild sexual innuendo.

Very Funny

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This is so much fun! Cheeky weird plant info told to us by Sue. Can't get cheekier!

Weird plants!! Hooray!!

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Such a creative way to learn. Loved it! Wish there was a lot more.

Great way to learn

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This series was really amazing. I absolutely loved the facts that were provided about each plant and truly enjoyed Sue’s sense of humor. HOWEVER, while the characterized dialogue, performed by Sue and another man, that took occurred throughout every episode was funny, there was just WAY too much of it. One or two little snippets sprinkled in each episode would be fine but the stupid scenarios took up more than half of each episode. I still listened to every episode because I sincerely enjoyed the information that was provided but I don’t know if I would recommend the series to someone who has less patience than I do haha! I made my husband listen to one with me and he did not like it at all because of the “side show” that went along with the episode.

Would have loved more with less silly dialogue

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Love Sue. She is funny but not necessarily good for children. Makes learning about new plants interesting.

Love it

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Loud and obnoxious. No need for al the skits just tell the facts!

Anyway, the fact part is cool but some of skits are over 30s.

Dont buy if you want something interesting and calming.

Not something to sleep to. Loud and obnoxious

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