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Sue Perkins: Nature Table
Sue Perkins: Nature Table
Oct 8, 2024 10:22 PM

Author:Catherine Brinkworth,Kat Sadler,Jon Hunter,Sue Perkins

Sue Perkins: Nature Table

What do a whale’s eardrum, a beaver’s anal gland and the feather of a lesbian albatross have in common?

They’re not the ingredients for the beginnings of a bad joke, but some of the objects brought in for 'show and tell' in Nature Table with Sue Perkins.

Listen as a marine biologist, an ethnobotanist, an ant expert (yes, really), a wildlife cameraman and other experts bring Sue their strange and fascinating objects – and the stories that go with them - to discuss with a “class” at London Zoo, made up of guests like comedians Sally Phillips and Lucy Porter, as well as London Zoo staff and members of the public.

Why are sea otters “demons”? Which animal can delay its own pregnancy until it’s ready? Which animal is probably living on the faces of most human adults? Nature Table might teach you something about the amazing world of plants and animals while hopefully making you laugh along the way.

Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Kat Sadler & Jon Hunter

Produced by: Simon Nicholls

Researcher: Catherine Beazley

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

A BBC Studios Production.

Reviews

Thrilling ... Ritchie reminds us that another world is possible

—— The Times

Fascinating and often shocking

—— Sunday Times, Best Paperbacks of 2021

The most important science story of our times ... evocative and engaging ... sometimes funny, sometimes shocking

—— Unherd

Excellent ... we need better science. That's why books like this are so important

—— Evening Standard

Entertaining ... revelatory ... brilliantly highlights the problems in current practices and sets out a path towards new ones

—— Daily Mail

A desperately important book, Science Fictions brilliantly exposes the fragility of the science on which lives, livelihoods and our whole society depend ... Required reading for everyone

—— ADAM RUTHERFORD, author of How to Argue With a Racist

Ritchie's engaging tour of the dark side of research [...] has rumbled science's guilty secret ... the tragedy is that the current system does not just overlook our foibles, it amplifies them ... he's entertaining company ... an illuminating and thoughtful guide. Ultimately, he comes to praise science, not to bury it

—— ROGER HIGHFIELD , Literary Review

An engagingly accessible set of cautionary tales to show how science and scientists can be led astray, in some instances with fatal consequences ... clear-eyed and chillingly accurate ... should be compulsory reading for anyone involved in the communication of science to policy makers and to the public

—— GINA RIPPON, author of The Gendered Brain

Gripping tales of increasing recent villainy and bias in the laboratory, which should worry those of us who love science

—— MATT RIDLEY, author of How Innovation Works

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—— Fiona Fidler , Nature

He has come to praise science, not to bury it; nevertheless, his analyses of science's current ethical ills - fraud, hype, negligence and so on - are devastating

—— Simon Ings , Telegraph

Science Fictions... is a useful account of ten years or more of debate, mostly in specialist circles, about reproducibility

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—— i paper

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—— i paper

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—— BBC Culture

A very funny book.

—— i News

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—— New Books Magazine

A powerful memoir

—— Laura Whitmore , BBC Radio 5

Timely and highly original

—— Evening Standard

Brilliant and moving

—— The Times

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A brave, lyrical, painful tale of bereavement, addiction, and the building of a new life

—— Joanna Briscoe , Evening Standard

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—— Guardian

Searing

—— Daily Mail

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—— Mail on Sunday

Searing. A masterful writer with a gift for storytelling. Her prose is rich with detail, combining a sharp sense of place with escalating drama. A triumph

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—— Emma Gannon

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