Parenting Podcast: Rock Pools
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Heading to the British coast on holiday this year? The fascinating Heather Buttivant tells us what wonders we can find in the common rock pool, and how to interest kids in them.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.4 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and this woman's our parenting podcast is all about rock pools. |
| 0:40.2 | Okay, it's not traditionally, specifically parenting, but on the other hand, you could be |
| 0:46.2 | fortunate enough to be by the sea and it's the British summer, so it might be raining and what |
| 0:50.8 | could be better than a trip down the rock pools. Here we go. |
| 0:54.9 | Heather Butterfant, author of Rockpool, extraordinary encounters between the tides, |
| 1:00.0 | a lifelong fascination told in 24 creatures. |
| 1:04.0 | You're on every single page of this book there's a nugget that somebody will enjoy. |
| 1:09.0 | And yes, we will talk about that fact about barnacles that I know you're desperate to bring to the nation but we'll |
| 1:15.5 | start with there are great rock pools presumably all over Britain but there must |
| 1:21.2 | be parts of the British coastline that are the best for Rockpools. |
| 1:24.8 | Of course, I am massively biased. I grew up in Cornwall and I still live in Cornwall, so of course I'm going to say |
| 1:31.7 | Cornwall because we have, obviously, rocky shores all around the edge of Cornwall, |
| 1:35.4 | Devon as well, a lot of Wales is rocky. Scotland's amazing, so many places, Yorkshire, |
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