- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
The most hardened city-dwellers can enjoy blunting their ignorance on Jimmy Doherty’s series. It may be that country folk are entirely familiar with oak galls but they came as news to me. They’re the ball-like growths you get on some oak trees and were once thought to be able to restore a woman’s virginity.
In fact, galls are formed when a species of wasp lays eggs on the tree and injects a substance that tricks the tree’s cells into generating extra growth — which will then feed the wasp’s larva, buried inside the fruit-like gall. All very clever.
About this programme
As autumn arrives in the Norfolk forest, Jimmy Doherty gives a pair of his friends the task of foraging for fruit and nuts when they visit his tree house. The presenter also learns about the methods kestrels use to hunt, meets a man who claims he is able to speak to owls, makes ink from oak galls, and discovers the extraordinary natural properties of deer antlers.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Presenter
- Jimmy Doherty
Crew
- Executive Producer
- Charlie Clay
- Executive Producer
- Jane Aldous
- Series Director
- Andy Robbins
- Series Director
- Anna Stickland
- Series Producer
- Claire Hobday
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