Looking for mushrooms, finding happiness

BBC Earth Podcast

Jenkins Laura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Tv & Film

4.6 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We're journeying into hidden worlds, exploring nature that offers much more than what initially meets the eye. We travel to locations that continue to thrive against the odds.

When Long Litt Woon's life drastically changed, she turned to the secretive world of mushrooms to manage her grief. She tells us how these visible fungi are just one tiny part of a vast and complex organism that lives beneath our feet.

We'll hear how a crew member filming the latest David Attenborough series, A Perfect Planet, managed to document the life of a creature measuring the size of an apostrophe: the fig wasp.

Finally we go to Ethiopia, where small pockets of forest surrounding churches continue to thrive.

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0:00.0	Breaking up is never easy, but saying goodbye to your old clunky work tools, well, that's easy.
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0:33.2	This is a podcast from BBC Studios.
0:36.1	BBC Studios. A commercial subsidiary of the BBC.
0:45.6	You know, you go into the woods and then you can almost smell the mushrooms.
0:53.0	You know what I think?
0:53.8	Ooh, this looks like a good spot for mushrooms.
0:58.4	Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast,
1:01.1	a slice of the living, breathing, natural world
1:03.9	delivered directly to your headphones.
1:07.1	In this episode, we're exploring hidden landscapes,
1:14.6	the parts of our planet that we can't see or simply don't notice.
1:19.6	We'll be meeting some of the things that live there and making them tell us their secrets.
1:27.5	You pick up a mushroom, you turn it upside down, you bring the underneath of the cap right to your nose and you sniff it.
1:32.4	And some mushrooms have, you know, such distinct smells.
1:33.6	It's like a fingerprint.
1:41.5	Our first story comes from long-lit wound, anthropologists, author and our guide into the secretive world of mushrooms.
1:47.0	They may not look like much, but they have the power to surprise you. The first thing you learn is
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