The Nature Table Christmas Special

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Sue Perkins hosts a comedy 'Show & Tell' series celebrating the natural world.

Join comedian, broadcaster and writer Sue Perkins as she hosts Nature Table: a comedy 'Show & Tell' series celebrating the natural world and all its funny eccentricities.

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Nature Table: The Nature Table Christmas Special

BBC Radio 4 - Nature Table, The Nature Table Christmas Special

A festive extended version of Nature Table

Sue Perkins is joined by celebrity guests and experts for an extended festive special celebrating the natural world and all its eccentricities.

In keeping with the show's 'show and tell' format, Sue will be joined by celebrity guests from the worlds of comedy and natural history. Expert guests for the festive special include: naturalist, presenter and writer Chris Packham, botanist, presenter and writer James Wong, wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan. And helping Sue to make sense of the amazing funny facts that the experts present is Tony-nominated comedy actor Stephen Mangan (Billy Elliot, I'm Alan Partridge, Green Wing, Have I Got News For You).

For the Christmas special, our experts will be presenting flora and fauna that all have a festive connection. These include: reindeers, robins, fly agaric mushrooms (that hold the key to why reindeers can fly and Father Christmas wears red and white), turtle doves, Christmas spiders (and their link to the history of Christmas tinsel), holly and partridges.

Nature Table positively celebrates our planet's wild flora and fauna, by making a show that's both informative and funny. The Christmas special will be a cheery sparkly humorous addition to Radio 4's Christmas schedule.


Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Kat Sadler & Jon Hunter

Produced by: Simon Nicholls

Music by Ben Mirin. Additional sounds were provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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