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Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of Britain

Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles

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Open Country: The Mushroom Man

The Mushroom Man

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, The Mushroom Man

How to spot Porcini and leave Destroying Angel mushrooms in the woods.

Helen Mark heads into a mid-Wales forest on a fungi foray with Daniel Butler and a dog.

"Mushroom fans, foragers like myself - and mycologists even more so - hate the word toadstool because it's basically just yet another example of British prejudice against mushrooms." Writer and forager Daniel Butler leads the charge against British mushroom ignorance as he steers a small group - plus dog - into the woods of mid-Wales. They're looking for tasty porcini, or penny bun mushrooms, to cook and eat. They find so many we can't tell you where they went.

Presented by Helen Mark and produced by Miles Warde

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