Nature Table
Comedy of the Week
BBC
4 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this first episode of a new series, ducks’ super vaginas and a meteorite that’s the key to how life on Earth started wow the team.
For this new series of Sue Perkins’ ARIA-winning ‘Show and Tell’ wildlife comedy, Team Nature Table have recorded at the Natural History Museum, Kew Gardens – for some botanical specials – and London Zoo.
Starting the series off, we’re at the Natural History Museum. Sue is joined by special guests: comedian Desiree Burch, science writer Jules Howard and the NHM’s curator of meteorites Dr. Natasha Almeida.
Our varied subjects include: Dogs, a meteorite that can explain how life started on Earth, Ducks’ vaginas (with Sue studying one up close courtesy of a VR headset) and moon rock.
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 giggle.
Hosted by: Sue Perkins Guests: Desiree Burch, Natasha Almeida & Jules Howard Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Jenny Laville & Jon Hunter Additional material by: Christina Riggs & Pete Tellouche Researcher: Catherine Beazley Executive Producer: Richard Morris Sound Recordist & Editor: Jerry Peal Music by: Ben Mirin Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls Producer: Simon Nicholls
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Garrelinika here with Alan Shearer and Mike Wicherichs to say the |
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| 0:20.1 | that's all right. You're not going wrong. Really? |
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| 0:26.0 | Mash is the day, top 10. Listen only on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Shh, Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, I'm Sue Perkins and welcome to a special botanical episode of Nature Table, |
| 0:51.0 | coming to you from Q Gardens. |
| 0:54.0 | Now the world of plants is full of incredible facts. |
| 0:56.7 | For example, did you know a mature cedar tree can provide enough wood to make 300,000 pencils, while an immature one can use those pencils to write the word bum. |
| 1:10.0 | We're coming to you from the Jodrell Laboratory Lecture |
| 1:12.5 | here at Kew Gardens. |
| 1:13.7 | The botanical gardens at Kew are home |
| 1:15.6 | to a giant Saikad, which is the world's oldest pot plant |
| 1:19.6 | and under it the world's oldest spare key. And with me to run our eyes over some of the fascinating things that nature has to offer, |
| 1:28.0 | then wipe our eyes clean and pop them back in. |
| 1:30.0 | We have comedian Lucy Porter and bringing us gifts to peer out like a couple of shopping |
| 1:33.6 | center father Christmases on non-uniform day Ethnobotonous James Wong and |
| 1:37.8 | forensic botanist Dr Mark Spencer. |
| 1:40.3 | Now Lucy let's start with you and welcome back by the way always a pleasure to have |
| 1:46.6 | you here such a delight to be here as this is a botanical special I'd like to pose |
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