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Podcast: BBC Countryfile Magazine
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254. Discover the magic of weeds with artist Anna Chapman Parker

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:02:45
Publish Date: 2024-07-09 02:00:00
Description:

Join an unusual Plodcast adventure in an urban car park with artist and author Anna Chapman Parker. Anna spent a year watching and drawing the wildflowers in her local town – plants normally dismissed as weeds. And she created an astonishing diary of overlooked beauty.


Here she take Plodcast host Fergus Collins an urban journey of discovery to open our eyes to the magic in every crack in the pavement.


Anna's book: Understorey: A Year Among Weeds is published by Duckworth Books.


The Plodcast is the Publishers Podcast Awards Special Interest Podcast of the Year 2024 and the PPA Podcast of the Year 2022.


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If your letter, email or message is read out on the show, you could WIN a Plodcast Postbag prize of a wildlife- or countryside-themed book chosen by the team.


Produced by Jack Bateman and Lewis Dobbs. Music written and performed by Blair Dunlop.


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