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Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders - Propriety, plants, grandparents, and growing your own

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Award winning comedian, Josie Long (BBC New Comedy Awards, if.comedy Best Newcomer 2006) presents her first radio series, in which she aims to explore all of the planet's wonders (in detail) over four 14 minute episodes. This comedy series is all about Long's desire to better herself through learning and her enjoyment of discovering things in old reference books. Over the series Josie is regularly joined by Irish comedian, Maeve Higgins, and by a variety of comedic guests -Robin Ince, Chris Neill, Daniel Harkin, Henning Wehn, Jesse Thorn and Isy Suttie, plus the occasional actual expert. Each episode is anchored by Josie and Maeve in the studio, with Josie presenting her essay on the week's subject and Maeve helping with questions, illustrations and interruptions. The guests help to play extra characters or to provide specialist advice. This week, Josie presents a show about propriety, plants, grandparents, being connected to the world around you and growing your own. This programme features a guest appearance from actress / comedian Isy Suttie.