The Wiggly Podcast is our weekly dose of Wiggly Life, it’s like The Archers, but real!
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Wiggly Podcast 0158Nor any drop to drink
Length: 37 mins 58 secs | First netcast on Nov 17 2008 - Heather's back with amazing news about winning the first ever Dell Small Business Award at the Global level. But first there's a question from Farmer Phil about the effect of slug pellets on worms, then it's time to catch up on the findings discussed at this year's Nuffield Conference and how they are changing Phil's way of farming. The main feature is an interview between Heather and fellow Nuffield Scholar, Louise Manning, on her chosen topic of water as a resource.
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Wiggly Podcast 0157Buried by the Black Lake
Length: 19 mins 42 secs | First netcast on Nov 10 2008 - In Episode 145, Farmer Phil gave the go ahead to a proposal by Tim Hoverd from Herefordshire Archaeology to investigate a potential Bronze Age site that had been spotted in one of the farm's fields. This week, Tim reports back to Phil and Heather about what has been found; and it's not at all what was expected. Back on the Wiggly Sofa, Richard, Rachel Harries and Phil discuss a softening of Richard's attitude to Bill Oddie and the forthcoming opening of the new Wiggly Floristry. Plus there's another Montycast, this time about Ecover.
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Wiggly Podcast 0156The Nine Lives of Noah
Length: 31 mins 03 secs | First netcast on Nov 03 2008 - Richard and Rachel Harries are the only members of the Team to make it to the Wiggly Sofa this week; Noah the cat is also around, but keeping a low profile after several close scrapes! Richard has been to visit a super secure paper shredding system at Enviroshred and we get to hear how it went. He also finds out more about growing Heritage Potatoes when he meets grower Lucy Carroll in the Wiggly Garden. Add to that another Montycast and news about Rachel's unscientific science experiment and it turns out to be a packed show.
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Wiggly Podcast 0155Shearing Hairy Salsify
Length: 25 mins 10 secs | First netcast on Oct 27 2008 - Heather finds herself double booked, so it's left to Richard, Phil and Rachel Harries to talk about apples and unusual vegetables. Rachel has visited an old Herefordshire orchard with Frank Hemming, where she gets to see some very rare specimens of apple tree. Back on the Wiggly Sofa, Richard's Vegetable of the Month is Salsify, which just might be the Octopus of the Veg World. But first, there's a machine which can peel, slice and core an apple in just a few seconds to put through its paces.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 23 secs Welcome to the apple shopping channel from Rich, Farmer Phil & "the not so young" Rachel H
- 06 mins 19 secs Rachel talks to Frank Hemming about some amazing old varieties of apple.
- 14 mins 35 secs Local apples are good, especially those from the Wiggly garden and ones used to make cider!
- 18 mins 56 secs Richard gives us the low down on sensational salsify.
- 23 mins 07 secs The team discusses the merits of heritage varieties of potatoes and why they are so important.
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Wiggly Podcast 0154An Evening with Terry Walton (Part 2)
Length: 41 mins 54 secs | First netcast on Oct 20 2008 - Part Two of the live show from Preston-on-Wye Village Hall. In which the show billed as "Definitely Not Gardeners' Question Time" turns into Gardeners' Question Time. If only they'd called it "An Evening of Music and first-class Comedy"...
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 16 secs Time for the mutilation of a classic Tom Jones number.
- 05 mins 45 secs Now for some audience questions with topics like avocados, nematodes & barbed wire.
- 40 mins 06 secs Some dubious mouth organ playing from Rich who was obviously doing it his own way.
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Wiggly Podcast 0153An Evening with Terry Walton (Part 1)
Length: 48 mins 05 secs | First netcast on Oct 13 2008 - Recorded live in the Village Hall, Preston-on-Wye on October 10th 2008, Riccardo and Radio 2's Terry Walton take to the stage in front of a capacity crowd.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 01 secs We start with a welcome to Terry and Richard from Heather.
- 00 mins 48 secs And next a welcome from Richard.
- 01 mins 41 secs A quick song from the 2nd most sexy man in Wales...
- 02 mins 39 secs Terry's still singing!
- 03 mins 03 secs A relaxed Terry talks about converting his worms into musical Welsh ones.
- 07 mins 14 secs No Terry, you don't eat the Bokashi bran!
- 08 mins 08 secs Terry tells of his passion for veggies, empire building & royal visitors.
- 23 mins 06 secs Richard has a love of wildlife (mostly eating it!) and teasels.
- 29 mins 08 secs There are 247 species of solitary bees would you beelieve!
- 32 mins 13 secs Wanted: Hedgehogs to re-locate to Wales!
- 35 mins 19 secs Terry's been stabbing his skating, obese, Rhondda slugs under cover of darkness!
- 40 mins 51 secs What is a weed?
- 41 mins 48 secs What's the main problem you suffer with Terry? You Richard!
- 43 mins 34 secs What's your favourite type of manure?
- 46 mins 19 secs Richard has a joke to share with everyone...
- 47 mins 10 secs "I think you'd better stick with the day job" says Terry
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Wiggly Podcast 0152Goat Show
Length: 33 mins 33 secs | First netcast on Oct 06 2008 - In which Phil lights a fire, Heather finds out where her beloved Goat Socks come from, the Wiggly Van is seen at NASA, Monty realises that some blackbirds are brown and San is in the dock.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 01 secs It's a hot goat show this week with a Wiggly criminal.
- 01 mins 49 secs First goat fact.
- 03 mins 38 secs Goat fact number 2.
- 04 mins 06 secs Feedback from knife wielding Podchef aka Mary Poppins.
- 06 mins 26 secs Fact No 3 - goats have more molars than Heather!
- 07 mins 22 secs Heather visits Robi to hear about her jumper wearing goats.
- 18 mins 59 secs Farmer Phil is busy with his peas!
- 21 mins 56 secs Time for a birdy Montycast.
- 22 mins 12 secs There are 450m goats in the world.
- 22 mins 33 secs What has Heather been doing in the new Wiggly sunflower van?
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Wiggly Podcast 0151How to Open an Opinel Knife
Length: 31 mins 48 secs | First netcast on Sep 29 2008 - Heather, Rach, Rachel and Farmer Phil man the sofa for the show whose fame has spread as far as the Austrian iTunes site. Along with a quick Montycast, we learn that Phil has been dealing with women's problems ...in a cow; Heather has been drying her herbs for Winter; Rach has been to the poshest hotel in the world and Rachel is still transfixed by Phil's sunflowers. No wonder it takes them so long to open an Opinel knife!
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 01 secs Welcome from Heather and a duo of Racquelles.
- 01 mins 37 secs Time for a quick Montycast
- 01 mins 56 secs We have a 5* Austrian iTunes review from Suzanne.
- 05 mins 11 secs Which bit of the cow has the tube been up or down Farmer Phil?
- 10 mins 01 secs A Wiggly 10 second guide on how to open an Opinel knife.
- 13 mins 54 secs A shivering team review the new stem vases.
- 16 mins 54 secs "Look at my dried herbs" says Heather
- 22 mins 00 secs Rachel tells us all about Terry & Ricardo's "do" on 10 October 2008.
- 23 mins 36 secs Harvest news from Farmer Phil.
- 25 mins 13 secs Rachel with some Kohlrabi facts.
- 26 mins 32 secs Well girls, tell us all about Berlin and your posh hotel.
- 28 mins 51 secs Rachel quizzes Farmer Phil about his sunflowers.
