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Nature Table

Series 4

5: Elton John Horseflies and Supersonic Fungi

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

In this episode, Sue and Team Nature Table return to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.

Nipple-eyed Horseflies, a fungus that sexually reproduces by itself, a fly that decapitates ants and poo-based fungi or ‘dungi’ wow Sue and the invited audience.

Sue is joined by special guests: Kew Gardens’ Fungarium Collection’s Manager Lee Davies, Principal Curator for Diptera & Siphonaptera at the Natural History Museum Erica McAlister and award-winning writer comedian Dave Gorman.

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: Lee Davies, Erica McAlister & Dave Gorman
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

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