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Wiggly Podcast 0116A Private Viewing
Length: 48 mins 52 secs | First netcast on Dec 31 2007 - Richard is given an exclusive, and at times almost unbearably poignant, tour of Sir Roy Strong's Herefordshire garden, The Laskett.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 02 secs Welcome from the Wiggly sofa and here's what's on this week's show.
- 01 mins 18 secs And now for something more serious and very moving.
- 01 mins 50 secs Richard chats to Sir Roy Strong in his romantic, nostalgic Herefordshire garden
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Wiggly Podcast 0115Virgin Birth
Length: 33 mins 33 secs | First netcast on Dec 24 2007 - The team are back together on the Wiggly Sofa for the 2007 Christmas Podcast, where Richard surprises Farmer Phil with a yew frame, Heather turns the conversation to sage and onion, Farmer Phil relates his boyhood experiences of ploughing up wartime munitions and, given the time of year, it's wholly appropriate that the there's not one, but two virgin births (or perhaps not).
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 02 secs "Merry Christmas". Richard gives Farmer Phil a woody gift and they share a fireside hug.
- 04 mins 33 secs "Happy Christmas" from the Wiggly staff
- 04 mins 46 secs It's time to talk about scrummy homemade sage and onion stuffing.
- 05 mins 10 secs Former onion farmer Phil & the team discuss all things onion and Richard feels cleansed.
- 11 mins 57 secs The mission: 10 facts from Rich about himself. No? Oh well, we'll have to make them up then!
- 13 mins 02 secs And now on to the sage. Does yours go woody in the middle?
- 14 mins 53 secs Phil with a bluetongue update and just what is a 90% pregnant cow?
- 18 mins 52 secs The team on Robin Page's article and the presentation of wildlife issues generally.
- 29 mins 33 secs It's over to Monty for his new farmcast.
- 30 mins 08 secs We've got 10 signed copies of Hugh's new Fish book (which includes a couple of Richard's photos)
- 30 mins 38 secs It's official, "iPods are great" and here's how to subscribe to the Wiggly podcast.
- 31 mins 11 secs Next week's show is a special and comes from Sir Roy Strong's garden.
- 32 mins 05 secs We're off to the Christmas party in the village hall now for a slap up roast lunch.
- 33 mins 04 secs ps Jo says, "I love Bill"
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Wiggly Podcast 0114Brain Dead
Length: 33 mins 49 secs | First netcast on Dec 17 2007 - The show number brings back fond memories for Farmer Phil; Richard makes a rain garden for a Wiggly competition winner; there's a birthday shout-out request (and that's a first) from an ex-Gucci girl and Heather feels out of place as she doesn't have a Range Rover. To top everything, Phil goes back to school, but this time it's with the girls!
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 01 secs Cow number 114 is Ermintrude who was bald, the size of a dog and lived in a dustbin.
- 02 mins 42 secs And now for the real intros and what's on this week.
- 03 mins 50 secs Feedback from Louise who owns a two wheeled tractor. How do we tell her it's a called a bike?
- 06 mins 55 secs Phil is worn out after his trip back to school to answer questions like "How do you kill a cow?"
- 11 mins 19 secs Feedback from school and Richard thinks Farmer Phil has been telling the girls porky pies!
- 13 mins 48 secs Phil reads from Nigel Slater's book, "Eating for England" and Wiggly Wigglers gets a mention.
- 15 mins 50 secs There are now 83 discussion topics in the Facebook Group including "Farmer Phil Fashion Show"
- 16 mins 20 secs Now is the ideal time to plant trees and make willow sculptures to escape from 'er indoors.
- 20 mins 33 secs Richard visits Rachel in Llanelli to drink tea make her rain garden and scare her baby.
- 30 mins 06 secs "Why is Bill Oddie so irritating?" asks Richard
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Wiggly Podcast 0113I wish they all could be...
Length: 46 mins 06 secs | First netcast on Dec 10 2007 - Heather gets to meet three very different California Girls (well, one's a Texan); Alison and Phil decide the pigs' fate; Richard decides to build a propagator and Adi decides to tell a tiny joke. What with a pile of feedback to get through as well, it all makes for a bumper length episode.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 18 secs The Wiggly team creaks into action with some feedback and Richard is fishing for compliments.
- 03 mins 27 secs Feedback from Dr Jenny Andrew on carbon offsetting followed by the team's thoughts.
- 08 mins 00 secs Heather's baked a slanting Victoria biscuit, Phil's got wind and Richard's full of hot air!
- 09 mins 18 secs A pink, wet Richard IS the Weakest Link (Just what is the European Wine Mountain Richard?)
- 11 mins 47 secs Feedback from Kate at www.floozy.co.nz
- 13 mins 21 secs Heather chats to Amy Stewart about her lady chickens and her latest book (www.amystewart.com)
- 28 mins 16 secs Podcast listener Patrice tells Heather about her gardening exploits and passion for composting.
- 32 mins 10 secs Margot, the recycling giant, shows off her pickup complete with chain saw, grass and daylight
- 35 mins 37 secs Adi, the DJ with the soggy PC, drops in from outer space with a joke.
- 37 mins 32 secs Richard plans to build a cold frame and the team talk about propagation.
- 40 mins 19 secs Cats don't like muscle spray on teabags!
- 40 mins 40 secs Heather on her quest for the best Wiggly t-shirt slogans (www.heathergorringe.com)
- 41 mins 21 secs What's happening to the pigs? The team plus Alison discuss killing & chopping the porkers.
- 45 mins 49 secs News Flash! Listening to the Wiggly podcast is better than chocolate...
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Wiggly Podcast 0112The Biggest Fish Ever Caught...
Length: 25 mins 27 secs | First netcast on Dec 03 2007 - Back together after their travels, the Team reconvene on a new Wiggly Sofa where Heather, Richard and Farmer Phil catch up on fishing in South America; a close shave with TB and meeting a fan at the Podcast Expo in California. There's even time for a love letter from deep in the Jungle.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 00 secs A welcome from the new/old sofa this week and just why is Michael coming down the chimney?
- 00 mins 52 secs It's been about a 100 years since we last met on the sofa and it's a good news/bad news thing!
- 01 mins 46 secs Heather on the launch of the first catalogue involving customer submissions.
- 03 mins 46 secs Richard tells all about his adventure to Guyana and his 300lb Arapaima gigus.
- 11 mins 12 secs "Wake up chubby". Phil summons up some energy to talk about his sunflowers and bovine diseases.
- 17 mins 12 secs Heather reports that a rather posh Farmer Phil, aka Tony Blair, gave a talk to Leaf members.
- 17 mins 57 secs Heather talks to American Jerry Franklin, Wiggly Podcast listener, at the Podcasting Conference.
- 21 mins 51 secs Heather reads out some more Southern sayings from Kevin
- 22 mins 30 secs An iTune review from Verbena and an e-mail from regular Simon Sherlock who is pining.
- 23 mins 52 secs A forgetful, naive, Richard trusted Jo to forward an e-mail to Sarah... oh what a silly boy!
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Wiggly Podcast 0111It's not a mouse, it's not a rat, it's not a gerbil.
Length: 22 mins 03 secs | First netcast on Nov 26 2007 - Richard and Rachel from Herefordshire Action for Mammals set up 37 small mammal traps. What, if anything, will take their bait?
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 17 secs We've caught something in our trap, but it's not a woolly mammoth!
- 02 mins 58 secs The ancient Ricardo and Rachel from HAM bait the mammal traps ready for the open day.
- 06 mins 41 secs Richard and Rachel discover some bank vole holes under an old oak.
- 08 mins 33 secs And to the open day... Will any of the traps have anything in?
- 09 mins 51 secs No...No...No... How many traps have we looked at now? Anything in this one? No!
- 11 mins 36 secs Rachel dons her plastic gloves and the tension mounts...ohhhhhhhh!
- 12 mins 16 secs Please let it be our lucky day... No!
- 13 mins 08 secs Is it a mouse? Is it a rat? No it's a bank vole!
- 14 mins 30 secs Are you squeezing that mouse? No, just scruffing it!
- 14 mins 51 secs It's a boy... Are we allowed to eat him?
- 15 mins 34 secs Urgh that's poo!
- 15 mins 41 secs Put him back in the trap - that's where you found him
- 16 mins 06 secs The star of the show is released
- 16 mins 54 secs That's because he doesn't brush his teeth and hasn't got a brush - that's not a joke!
- 16 mins 54 secs "Yellow-necked mice will take your arm off." ... "So you're just being sarcastic"
- 18 mins 33 secs It was like the "Wind in the Willows" except that we were missing Mr Toad.
- 19 mins 09 secs Anything special about voles? They make great owl food and they glow in the dark!
- 21 mins 04 secs Does Gorringe wee glow in the dark?
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Wiggly Podcast 0110Nature Walk
Length: 26 mins 56 secs | First netcast on Nov 19 2007 - Richard and Rob take Farmer Phil on a Nature Walk - to Phil's set-aside field!
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 01 secs "Is it me?" asks Phil... Anyway, enough wittering and on with the show!
- 02 mins 08 secs Richard, Phil and Rob go on a ramble to look at the "permanent, rotational" set-aside field.
- 14 mins 46 secs The men move on to investigate an area of silver birch and alder and spot some deer.
- 24 mins 30 secs The team ask for suggestions for the future management of the set-aside area.
- 25 mins 32 secs And now for a joke..."A group of Irish men..." or maybe not - this time Phil gets gagged!
- 26 mins 11 secs That's it from the Wiggly sofa for this week, but has Heather actually listened to the men?
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Wiggly Podcast 0109A Trip to the Signal Box
Length: 33 mins 39 secs | First netcast on Nov 12 2007 - Heather visits wildlife photographer Mark Eccleston at his day job in a railway signal box.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 01 secs Blue Phil awaits a phone call about "Nota-bull". Richard's pink and happy with his sexuality!
- 02 mins 11 secs Heather talks about her (second) trip to see Mark and "grown up" Bill in their signal box.
- 04 mins 21 secs So now...So now...So now...I'm with Mark in his signal box on the Shrewsbury to Crewe line.
- 05 mins 36 secs Mark & Bill explain how things work, incl. blocks, bells, signals & male trains called Juliet!
- 14 mins 20 secs Bill works out and Mark doesn't (with friends like that who needs enemies?)
- 15 mins 09 secs The knotweed's gone and it's a lovely wildflower garden - don't let the spray train through!
- 17 mins 12 secs Mark and mini-Heather don fluorescent gear & get into a position of safety to admire the garden.
- 28 mins 16 secs Heather resists the urge to lie on the tracks as they visit the other half of the garden!
- 31 mins 44 secs Farmer Phil is tip-less and Richard has tips, but has been gagged!
- 33 mins 02 secs We forgot to plug Mark's blog... http://thegreenfingeredphotographer.blogspot.com
- 33 mins 22 secs It's the vet... "Hello ..."
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Wiggly Podcast 0108The Gardening Manifesto
Length: 28 mins 41 secs | First netcast on Nov 05 2007 - Heather attends the launch of Natural England's Gardening Manifesto and talks to author Chris Baines, producer Steven Moss and Chairman Sir Martin Doughty.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 15 secs The team on the launch of the Gardening Manifesto
- 07 mins 45 secs Heather talks about her trip to London for the launch and Joan Ruddock gets whipped!
- 08 mins 52 secs Heather talks to Chris Baines and Steven Moss
- 15 mins 38 secs Heather finds out how Sir Martin Doughty gardens at home and his hopes for the future.
- 23 mins 24 secs Richard laps up some praise and the team discuss their favourite podcast topics.
- 25 mins 33 secs What colour is the stuff that comes out of your nose?
- 26 mins 12 secs The latest iTunes review - Farmers' wives are sexy and farmers are curmudgeonly old b!$"&*s!!!
- 28 mins 00 secs Heather sums up the gardening manifesto...very quickly!
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Wiggly Podcast 0107Whistle While Worms Work
Length: 30 mins 24 secs | First netcast on Oct 29 2007 - Richard goes off to see Terry Walton's allotment and finally gets to drink coffee in its famous café. Heather thinks he's gone to help Terry start his own podcast, which could explain the delay.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 19 secs What's on this week and Phil listens to Terry on the Jeremy Vine Show (every week!!)
- 02 mins 50 secs Richard chats to Terry at his allotment, samples the coffee & answers Terry's worm questions
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Wiggly Podcast 0106A Jam Session
Length: 21 mins 50 secs | First netcast on Oct 22 2007 - It's the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness; but it's warm and sunny at Lower Blakemere Farm and Rachel has been jam making. On the other hand Alison still has a little of last year's sloe gin to hand. The Team decide it's time for a tasting. There's more serious stuff too as the only source of Bluetongue vaccine is closed, because it's a bio hazard.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 23 secs Heather's still away, the house is a building site and Farmer Phil is planting
- 04 mins 15 secs Farmer Phil on the Bluetongue outbreak
- 07 mins 00 secs Harvest time and filling up the winter store cupboard with pickles, jams and preserves
- 10 mins 44 secs Tips from the team on how to make the best sloe gin
- 15 mins 36 secs Let's get stuck into the jam...
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Wiggly Podcast 0105Rodeo Riding in the Farmyard
Length: 20 mins 50 secs | First netcast on Oct 15 2007 - Richard, Rachel and Farmer Phil gather on the Wiggly Sofa to discuss the next few months on the farm and uncover a little more of the history of Lower Blakemere Farmhouse, or at least the dining room's fireplace. Meanwhile, over in California, Heather visits a vintage farming fair in Paso Robles and gets to talk with farmer Paul Ernst.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 16 secs Richard, "the lovely" Rach and "mucky" Phil update us on Heather's trip
- 01 mins 43 secs A sound bite from Heather (to follow her trip go to www.heathergorringe.com)
- 03 mins 28 secs Heather talks to Californian farmer Paul Ernst
- 10 mins 45 secs Phil talks about autumn/winter jobs on the farm, his USA trip & the mess in the dining room.
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Wiggly Podcast 0104Four Week Holidays are the Answer
Length: 18 mins 00 secs | First netcast on Oct 08 2007 - Heather is away but Richard and Farmer Phil still manage to argue, this time about fuel consumption. Then Richard Skypes an interview (is Skype a verb?) with Martin Bacon, who has some pretty astonishing facts regarding carbon offset schemes.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 22 secs Rich and Rach start with an update on Heather's trip, discuss foreign travel and 4x4's
- 06 mins 24 secs Richard talks to Martin Bacon about carbon offsetting
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Wiggly Podcast 0103Not 'arf
Length: 28 mins 26 secs | First netcast on Oct 01 2007 - At the launch of the Year of Food and Farming, Farmer Phil interviews Ben Gill about enthusing children in the ways of food production; Richard goes snail racing; the livestock movement restrictions begin to bite; and Alison returns with a very widespread Plant of the Week. But first there's the small matter of the new chocolate rating to get through... Note to overseas listeners: the doyen of BBC DJs was the peerless Alan 'Not 'arf' Freeman (1927-2006). His Sunday evening show used Brian Fahey's tune 'At the Sign of the Swinging Cymbal' as the background to the countdown of the week's new chart.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 00 secs Top of the Chocs (with some very dubious singing!!)
- 01 mins 25 secs What's on this week
- 02 mins 43 secs The team on "The Year of Food and Farming" locally
- 05 mins 18 secs Farmer Phil talks to Sir Ben Gill
- 11 mins 46 secs The launch of the new "naked" catalogue and some customer feedback
- 13 mins 38 secs Richard on flying snails and Tippex
- 15 mins 21 secs "What's happening down on the farm" with Farmer Phil
- 20 mins 01 secs Rhubarb is great for mouth ulcers and lots of other things!
- 21 mins 02 secs Alison with this week's Plant of the Week which is Juniper
- 25 mins 23 secs The latest iTunes review
- 26 mins 26 secs Facebook reviews following Podcast 100
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Wiggly Podcast 0102Maintaining a Wormery
Length: 10 mins 00 secs | First netcast on Sep 24 2007 - Back by popular request, it's part two of the Can-O-Worms video series. Following on from where they left off in Podcast 81, Heather and Richard show how to use a Can-O-Worms.
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Wiggly Podcast 0101Rotting Waste Bucket
Length: 36 mins 14 secs | First netcast on Sep 17 2007 - Heather, Richard and Farmer Phil gather on the Wiggly Sofa to re-define the chocolate rating, but first there are a couple of Roving Riccardo interviews to fit in. Richard gets to talk to garden designer Roddy Llewellyn and pays a return visit to see Radio Two's allotment correspondant, Terry Walton, only to find that the slugs are attacking his frogs. Now, about that new Top of the Choc's...
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 00 secs Feedback on the 100th show and what's coming up this week
- 04 mins 35 secs Technocrat Richard tries to help Terry with his podcast
- 07 mins 03 secs More listener feedback, including infomerriment, cats and foreign chocolate
- 10 mins 01 secs The team chat about Hereford Cathedral's Festival of Flowers
- 11 mins 48 secs Richard talks to Roddy Llewellyn
- 21 mins 00 secs Richard catches up with Terry and admires his hanging baskets and tomatoes
- 28 mins 07 secs Farmer Phil on the latest foot and mouth outbreak
- 31 mins 54 secs The team talk about "The year of Food & Farming", which aims to reconnect customer with producer
- 35 mins 06 secs What's on next week and goodbye for now.
- 35 mins 58 secs "So guys, we're not having the chocolate rating after all..."
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Wiggly Podcast 0100Milka is Goppin
Length: 34 mins 46 secs | First netcast on Sep 10 2007 - To celebrate the Wiggly Podcast centenary Heather responds to Podchef's challenge... it's time to reconsider the chocolate rating! What could be more straightforward? Would the educated palate please step forward?
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 01 secs Great excitement - it's the 100th show!
- 02 mins 30 secs A Richard nugget - a rather novel sprinkler system.
- 03 mins 50 secs Women and chocolate
- 04 mins 43 secs A Farmer Phil nugget
- 05 mins 14 secs The team don their rather unusual blindfolds and the tasting begins.
- 07 mins 23 secs Chocolate ethics
- 16 mins 47 secs The bags go back on...
- 25 mins 46 secs More chocolate darlings?
- 27 mins 08 secs and now for the results...
- 29 mins 32 secs Anyone for a glass of vintage Champagne?
- 30 mins 45 secs A Farmer Phil nugget
- 31 mins 12 secs "Cheers" to the listener and here's to the next 100 shows!
- 33 mins 06 secs A final word from the editor and farewell from the team
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Wiggly Podcast 0099The View from 30,000 feet
Length: 36 mins 47 secs | First netcast on Sep 03 2007 - In a packed show, Heather introduces Hereford Cathedral's Flower Festival; Farmer Phil discusses the price of wheat; Riccardo gets a sensible soundbite from Diarmuid Gavin; Monty and his pal Will move into the big league; Heather gets an invite from Ernst Stavro Podchef and listener Chris emails in a timely rant. There's hardly any time to fit in all the feedback!
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 18 secs Heather introduces herself to Farmer Phil
- 01 mins 43 secs The Hereford Times shows Mr Richard Fisbourne in a new light
- 02 mins 32 secs The latest review on iTunes and Richard for Prime Minister
- 04 mins 43 secs Hereford Cathedral's Festival of Flowers and the importance of locally grown flowers
- 07 mins 11 secs The rise and fall of wheat prices and how this affects both farmer and shopper
- 12 mins 18 secs Heather on author Allan Sheperd's blog http://allanshepherd.com
- 13 mins 56 secs Richard asks Diarmuid Gavin for three "off the wall" gardening tips for wildlife
- 15 mins 07 secs Heather reminisces about "corking" gardening interviews, but where is Alan Titchmarsh?
- 15 mins 56 secs Intrepid reporters Monty and Will join Farmer Phil who is combining vining peas
- 23 mins 09 secs Ecover, donations to the Billy Bank and Karen doesn't smell!
- 25 mins 22 secs Feedback time from Wiggly groupie Chris on energy usage and pollutants.
- 32 mins 59 secs and on next week's show... followed by offers of accommodation
- 35 mins 04 secs Monty's Pigcast
- 35 mins 17 secs Heather's update on Facebook and the Wiggly Wigglers' group
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Wiggly Podcast 0098Blatant Begging from a Shady Greenhouse
Length: 34 mins 43 secs | First netcast on Aug 27 2007 - Heather, a Middle Aged Kiosk in waiting, is reduced to begging for chocolate. The Farm Fax makes an appearance. Farmer Phil starts a discussion of Facebook. Richard distributes his home grown vegetables and tries to keep the caterpillars from his cabbages. Alison drops in with Honeysuckle as Plant of the Week. And Monty delivers another PigCast.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 01 secs Heather blatantly begs for large quantities of free chocolate samples
- 03 mins 32 secs Facebook, the Wiggly Wigglers' Group and the big cat debate...again
- 08 mins 50 secs Pigs and kids at the Wiggly Family Day
- 10 mins 13 secs Monty's Pigcast
- 10 mins 26 secs What's Milka and how to get a copy of the Wiggly Book "Bringing a Garden to Life"
- 13 mins 15 secs Heather's route through the USA
- 13 mins 42 secs The new catalogue is landing and Richard talks about veggies, seeds and caterpillar soup
- 24 mins 38 secs Richard explains the merits and many uses of Diatomaceous Earth
- 27 mins 11 secs Plant of the week with Alison and the team. This week it's honeysuckle.
- 32 mins 09 secs How to subscribe to the Wiggly Podcast
- 32 mins 56 secs Farmer Phil prefers Facebook to a mug of Horlicks!
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Wiggly Podcast 0097It doesn't matter what the price is...
Length: 35 mins 00 secs | First netcast on Aug 20 2007 - Farmer Phil counts the costs of the recent flooding and comes to the realisation that the free market doesn't always have all the answers. Then the team hears not once, but twice, from the Podchef - and the second matter is serious! Richard sells his car and crashes a tractor. Rob Lee returns for the first time since Episode 33 and Jim Frederickson returns for the first time since Episode 95!
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 11 secs Farmer Phil on the soggy summer, crop prices and rain induced depression
- 07 mins 02 secs Monty's Pigcast
- 07 mins 23 secs Feedback from Podchef, followed by Heather's rant about American gas guzzlers
- 09 mins 36 secs Dual wheels on combine harvesters (back to the wet!) and Liberace is reincarnated.
- 11 mins 25 secs Richard on his tractor driving skills (?) and the sale of his little red shopping trolley
- 13 mins 58 secs Jim Frederickson on the problems of large scale vermicomposting
- 25 mins 07 secs Rob, Richard and Phil discover some Tutsan (Hypericum Androsa)& talk about woodland
- 29 mins 58 secs Hev is on the "One Minute How to Show" (www.oneminutehowto.com) and it's still raining!
- 30 mins 59 secs and from Podchef - the team need to rethink the chocolate rating on ethical grounds
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Wiggly Podcast 0096Foot and Mouth
Length: 23 mins 27 secs | First netcast on Aug 13 2007 - The disease that farmer's dread the most is back and Farmer Phil wonders who is telling the truth. But it's not all problems at Lower Blakemere... there's a Willow Warbler about, Andy Fairweather Low has signed Monty's guitar and Heather is wondering why you never see a baby fly. All rounded off with another PigCast from Monty.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 22 secs From willow warblers to baby flies and mosquitos (not to moan of course..)
- 04 mins 40 secs Farmer Phil on Foot and Mouth
- 14 mins 09 secs Rich remembers how fishing was affected last time.. and wonders about farming floodplains
- 19 mins 37 secs But it's not all bad - news on our wheat prices
- 21 mins 50 secs Another PigCast from Monty
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Wiggly Podcast 0095Nitrogen, Nitrates and Nitrous Oxide
Length: 27 mins 00 secs | First netcast on Aug 06 2007 - The Open University's Jim Frederickson visits the Wiggly Sofa to explain to Richard and Farmer Phil just what his research into the Nitrous Oxide given off by industrial scale worm composting really did show. Hint: it wasn't that worms are destroying the planet as some parts of the popular press reported. Plus another PigCast from Monty.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 00 secs Phil tells us about the farm, how the weather may affect food prices, and we introduce Jim
- 05 mins 40 secs Jim talks about worms, nitrous oxide and many other sciency things
- 26 mins 35 secs Monty's Pigcast - a weekly fact on pigs
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Wiggly Podcast 0094Calling Rachel de Thame
Length: 28 mins 57 secs | First netcast on Jul 30 2007 - Monty's back! But first Richard gets to interview Rachel de Thame about her favourite gardens, then the Team chat about reducing the Wiggly Office's lighting bills, conserving the English Partridge and, of course, Phil's new rare-breed pigs.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 36 secs Find out what Rachel de Thame had to say to Richard
- 14 mins 29 secs Monty returns with our brand new Pigcast
- 14 mins 45 secs Some Wiggly Pig Waffle
- 25 mins 05 secs Farmer Phil talks biodiversity (to Richard's astonishment!)
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Wiggly Podcast 0093Social Media
Length: 23 mins 01 secs | First netcast on Jul 23 2007 - Farmer Phil is off checking the weather so it's just Heather and Richard on the Wiggly Sofa this week. Heather is just returned from the Radio Festival in Cambridge and bubbling with excitement about the possibilities of Social Media. Can she persuade Richard of its benefits?
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 04 mins 18 secs Will Richard ever get into social media?
- 04 mins 57 secs The Wiggly facebook group takes off
- 06 mins 40 secs Name dropping after the radio academy festival
- 08 mins 59 secs The best things to grow in your greenhouse...
- 13 mins 15 secs ...and how to use your worm tea wee to full effect
- 16 mins 53 secs Monty's Pigcast Preview
- 20 mins 08 secs Fruit flies in your wormery? Richard gives us his top tips
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Wiggly Podcast 0092We've lost 22 Hyde Parks...
Length: 34 mins 00 secs | First netcast on Jul 16 2007 - In which Phil has a rant about reversing alarms ('phone 01981 500930 to let him know what you think), Heather talks to James King about the pigs' hut (which is shaped like an like an igloo, hence Pigloo) and Richard and Phil discuss heating the house and office for free (but only after spending lots of money).
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 45 secs Proof that this podcast really CAN send people off to sleep
- 03 mins 25 secs A rant about noise pollution
- 06 mins 19 secs Learn more about the Wiggly Pigs' new home - the Pigloo.
- 13 mins 33 secs Should we name the pigs? We ask the Wiggly Team.
- 20 mins 09 secs Weather warnings - how flooding is affecting farming and the environment here in Herefordshire
- 24 mins 53 secs Find out why protecting gardens is so important for the environment
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Wiggly Podcast 0091Genetic Diversity on a Plate
Length: 29 mins 31 secs | First netcast on Jul 09 2007 - There's great excitement on the Wiggly Sofa as Farmer Phil's rare breed pigs finally arrive: you can get the whole story in this week's show. Plus feedback, a trip to the dentist's and a plea for YOU to nominate us to receive one of those prestigeous Podcast Awards ...go on, you know you want to. Pretty please.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 04 mins 07 secs Say hello to Lower Blakemere's latest arrivals
- 10 mins 52 secs Crackling to die for... but if we name the pigs will we ever find out?
- 15 mins 54 secs David Wilson talks about the importance of rare breeds from Home Farm.
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Wiggly Podcast 0090Chocolate-coated Dancing Girls
Length: 33 mins 17 secs | First netcast on Jul 02 2007 - It's a strangely old-fashioned Wiggly Podcast this week with the return of Alison and Plant of the Week and a chocolate rating for Richard's Book Review. There's also an email from Rosemary Moon and a scare story about worm produced Nitrous Oxide.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 04 mins 00 secs Worms are killing the planet...or are they?
- 08 mins 43 secs A message from Rosemary Moon
- 11 mins 00 secs Callers regret coming off hold now they can listen to the wiggly podcast!
- 13 mins 12 secs Alison tells us about Lady's Bed Straw in the return of Plant of the Week...
- 19 mins 25 secs ...and answers a quick question about hawthorn hedging while she's at it.
- 22 mins 07 secs Terry Walton's book receives Richard's top chocolate rating - chocolate coated dancing girls!
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Wiggly Podcast 0089Terry Walton's Allotment
Length: 40 mins 45 secs | First netcast on Jun 25 2007 - Richard visits Radio 2's allotment doctor, Terry Walton, on his garden in the Rhondda. Plus one of Phil's bulls does a bit of uncalled for pruning.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 44 secs Learn how you can use rhubarb leaves to get rid of plant pests
- 04 mins 21 secs Phil and Richard host the Harewood End Agricultural Society
- 09 mins 05 secs We expose the truth about worm reproduction, skyhooks, and how old Phil and Richard really are..
- 12 mins 22 secs Richard braves the elements to talk to Terry Walton on his allotment in South Wales
- 38 mins 56 secs Escaping cattle cause confusion
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Wiggly Podcast 0088Cheap T-shirts Fund Global Terrorism
Length: 35 mins 43 secs | First netcast on Jun 18 2007 - The fall-out from Open Farm Sunday invloves Richard setting Heather straight regarding the geology of Herefordshire and inadavertant face-painting. Heather gets to talk to Mathew Naylor about Delphiniums and Richard gets to talk to Janie Lee Grace regarding contact lenses.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 19 secs Richard goes networking in the world of sustainable living
- 11 mins 28 secs Our latest itunes review leads (quite naturally) to a discussion of hobbits...
- 13 mins 49 secs Open Farm Sunday, and a lesson on the geology of Herefordshire
- 26 mins 44 secs Hear from Matthew Naylor about the native flowers he farms for our bouquets
- 33 mins 12 secs And some last items of news
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Wiggly Podcast 0087Fairtrade begins at Home
Length: 19 mins 37 secs | First netcast on Jun 11 2007 - Country Living's deputy editor, Kitty Corrigan, returns to discuss the magazine's Fairtrade for British Farmers campaign.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 15 secs Kitty Corrigan introduces the campaign
- 05 mins 43 secs Will British farmers be using the faitrade emblem?
- 13 mins 03 secs Richard has his say
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Wiggly Podcast 0086Noah's Skateboard
Length: 37 mins 30 secs | First netcast on Jun 04 2007 - Rachel and Richard host a packed show in which Rachel celebrates an equestrian third place and describes zig-zag composting on the spot, whilst Richard finally gets to see inside Frankie's Cam Box and causes an otter to fall in the river. There's also another dose of our regular curmudgeon, Robin Page, and Noah the cat takes up involuntary skateboarding.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 02 mins 14 secs Rachael celebrates success at British Eventing
- 03 mins 52 secs An equestrian question about composting
- 06 mins 48 secs Richard talks to Frankie about her Great Tits
- 15 mins 53 secs Environmental politics at the Hay Festival
- 18 mins 34 secs Preservation or Progress? We question Robin Page about his drains...
- 32 mins 37 secs Springwatch and otters on the River Wye
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Wiggly Podcast 0085Open Farm Sunday is nigh
Length: 28 mins 52 secs | First netcast on May 28 2007 - The team are joined by Kitty Corrigan, the deputy editor of Country Living magazine, to discuss this year's Open Farm Sunday.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 00 secs
- 00 mins 53 secs How Open Farm Sundays began...
- 02 mins 00 secs Kitty Corrigan from Country Living talks about Open Farm Sunday
- 08 mins 38 secs Richard meets Farmer Jake
- 19 mins 25 secs More about Open Farm Sunday from a farmer in Somerset
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Wiggly Podcast 0084An interview with Patrick Holden
Length: 39 mins 22 secs | First netcast on May 21 2007 - In a major interview, Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, speaks with Heather about preparing for life after the oil runs out. On a lighter note, the Wiggly Podcast wins a 'Mousie' from the Mouse and Trowel Awards; Phil catches the mice that Noah leaves behind; the winner of our 'name that sound' competition overreacts and Richard talks about New Zealand where the wildlife exists only in fenced reserves. And then there's John Noakes's bum...
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 00 secs Richard on the telly!
- 01 mins 45 secs And even better... we've won a Mousie!
- 08 mins 45 secs Learn about the wildlife of New Zealand
- 13 mins 52 secs Why farmers should be thinking organic, according to Patrick Holden of the Soil Association...
- 27 mins 57 secs ...and Phil's response!
- 33 mins 30 secs Sounds like hornets
- 34 mins 23 secs Some of our latest reviews
- 39 mins 06 secs "What you're saying is twaddle" - is Farmer Phil disagreeing with Richard, perchance?
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Wiggly Podcast 0083The Sayings of Winston Churchill
Length: 27 mins 10 secs | First netcast on May 14 2007 - Farmer Phil gets excited about some new additions to Lower Blakemere, Richard gets excited about Hornets and a listener uses a tub trug to resuce ducklings.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 54 secs Ducks, crows and gulls
- 06 mins 29 secs "And the winner is..." - the results of our competition
- 11 mins 00 secs Richard treats us to a hornet impression
- 17 mins 31 secs We're getting giraffes! No not really. Find out what will really be coming to Lower Blakemere.
- 24 mins 40 secs Quoting (and misquoting) the best of Churchill
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Wiggly Podcast 0082Bird Nesting
Length: 34 mins 33 secs | First netcast on May 07 2007 - Heather and Richard search for bird's nests in the Wiggly Garden. Featuring the re-union of Richard with a ladder!
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 57 secs Richard goes up the ladder and finds some starlings - find out if he makes it back down in one p
- 05 mins 49 secs Nesting - locations and materials
- 09 mins 59 secs Laying eggs and hatching
- 16 mins 25 secs Almost everything you could want to know about snails
- 21 mins 28 secs More pond dipping
- 24 mins 40 secs Do wildlife ponds need pumps?
- 27 mins 42 secs We search the garden for more signs of life
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Wiggly Podcast 0081Let's show Geoff...
Length: 12 mins 30 secs | First netcast on Apr 30 2007 - In our second video edition, Heather and Richard set-up a Can-O-Worms.
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Wiggly Podcast 0080The Botanic Gardens of South Africa
Length: 22 mins 50 secs | First netcast on Apr 23 2007 - Here's a roving Riccardo report from Capetown and beyond. It starts very quietly... There's also a small wormcast from Monty, and Phil is set straight on the subject of Yorkshire Boarding.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 00 secs The sound of South Africa at dawn
- 00 mins 57 secs The Yorkshire Boarding Controversy
- 02 mins 50 secs Richard enthuses about his jaunt to South Africa...
- 05 mins 13 secs ...and interviews the curator of a botanical garden there
- 21 mins 52 secs A little wormfact from Monty
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Wiggly Podcast 0079Rhynchosporium and Net Blotch
Length: 31 mins 39 secs | First netcast on Apr 16 2007 - Richard is back, so he and Phil compare notes on growing vegetables in the garden and commercially. Monty contributes another wormcast and Phil defends his use of pesticides on the farm. There's even a Mystery Sound competition, for which Heather's clue is really quite useful... although it might not seem so at the time.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 50 secs Richard gives us a taster of his visit to Africa
- 04 mins 45 secs Mayhem in the Wiggly Office!
- 09 mins 22 secs Richard and Phil discuss vegetable growing
- 17 mins 49 secs Master Composters
- 19 mins 44 secs The launch of our competition
- 20 mins 57 secs Depression hits a Lower Blakemere bull
- 22 mins 46 secs Another wormcast with Monty
- 23 mins 02 secs Farmer Phil defends pesticides - could organic farming lead to famine?
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Wiggly Podcast 0078Bunshill Farm
Length: 25 mins 32 secs | First netcast on Apr 09 2007 - Spring has arrived at Wiggly Wigglers and it's far too nice to sit inside on the Wiggly Sofa so Heather heads off to see Alison's sheep and wildflower growing area.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 52 secs Find out about the sheep on Bunshill Farm
- 13 mins 25 secs Farmer Phil's Fan Club
- 15 mins 00 secs We take a look at Alison's wildflowers
- 21 mins 58 secs Why are they not organic?
- 24 mins 02 secs Details of other farmers' blogs
- 25 mins 13 secs The somewhat belated birthday request
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Wiggly Podcast 0077Margaret Beckett can't be with us tonight...
Length: 34 mins 04 secs | First netcast on Mar 30 2007 - After a busy week for Wiggly promotion, Heather, Rachel and Farmer Phil convene on the Wiggly Sofa to discuss the Daily Mail, the European Parliament, farm payments, calf weaning and lots more. With handy hints for saving water, a wormcast from Monty a report on Hannah's beehives and a polite encounter between Richard and Alan Shepard, it's a packed show.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 09 secs A bit about Hannah's beehives
- 03 mins 02 secs Water Saving Tip 68
- 04 mins 03 secs Wiggly Wigglers in the media
- 07 mins 39 secs Water Saving Tip 71
- 07 mins 39 secs Farmer Phil tries not to moan about subsidies
- 11 mins 56 secs Cold sailors at the European Parliament
- 13 mins 09 secs Water Saving Tip 81
- 13 mins 40 secs Some news from the farm - weaning calves and carbon footprints
- 17 mins 08 secs Water Saving Tip 11
- 19 mins 14 secs Water Saving Tip 24
- 20 mins 19 secs Richard talks to Alan Shepherd about his latest book
- 29 mins 00 secs Water Saving Tip 30
- 32 mins 55 secs Monty's wormcast
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Wiggly Podcast 0076The longest tracking shot in history
Length: 35 mins 40 secs | First netcast on Mar 23 2007 - One forty-eighth part of a day in the life of Wiggly Wigglers.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 00 secs Jodie tells us about the elusive Bilberry
- 03 mins 06 secs Hannah our organic gardener
- 05 mins 25 secs "Into the Worm Hole"
- 06 mins 57 secs Noel dishes out the worms
- 09 mins 40 secs Get to know the Lower Blakemere bulls
- 18 mins 10 secs Out and about around Wiggly Wigglers
- 21 mins 07 secs Phil talks about the cows and calves
- 32 mins 06 secs Wendy and Ricky hard at work in despatch
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Wiggly Podcast 0075Pop a Potty in your Pot
Length: 28 mins 48 secs | First netcast on Mar 19 2007 - Heather and Farmer Phil have been invited to visit the Klaas factory in Germany, so Richard and Rachel take control. It's a trip down memory lane as Rachel recollects the early days at Wiggly Wigglers. Richard discusses traps, otters and Robin Page's new book while Rachel decides her garden needs some manure. They both decide to go for a walk in the woods...
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 02 mins 27 secs Bunny burgers
- 05 mins 52 secs Wiggly Wigglers in the beginning
- 13 mins 45 secs Robin Page's otter obsession
- 18 mins 10 secs "Richard is correct" - some more slug solutions
- 21 mins 18 secs Chris Beardshaw, leaf litter and manure
- 25 mins 12 secs Kingsland school conservation area and Moccas Deer Park
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Wiggly Podcast 0074Black Slugs are Grey with Orange Spots
Length: 25 mins 30 secs | First netcast on Mar 12 2007 - Richard joins a croaky voiced Heather on the Wiggly Sofa for a discussion of beneficial slugs, early frogspawn and the Health and Safety aspects of composting leaves. Plus fire bells, feedback, an invitation to use the farm phone and another wormcast from Monty; and all in glorious stereo! Now, about Richard's bid to appear on 'The Weakest Link'...
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 03 mins 27 secs Why no one asks for organic medicines...
- 05 mins 32 secs Composting health and safety
- 07 mins 00 secs Bees in the fridge
- 11 mins 23 secs Attract goldfinches with a yellow feeder
- 12 mins 19 secs Richard for government
- 13 mins 09 secs All about slugs
- 18 mins 47 secs Fire steel and storm kettles
- 21 mins 24 secs Are starlings just big bullies?
- 24 mins 08 secs This week's wormcast
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Wiggly Podcast 0073Not Organic, Not Conventional
Length: 26 mins 27 secs | First netcast on Mar 05 2007 - In which an earlier retraction regarding Mother's Day is itself retracted and Farmer Phil explains about Sheep on Tack. Then Richard chats to Robin Page about the pros and cons of Organic farming. Finally, Phil and Heather's holiday in America rears its head again by way of some more Southern Sayings; but to avoid offending anybody Heather relegates them to the aftershow.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 28 secs Mothering Sunday or Mother's Day?
- 02 mins 37 secs We have sheep on tack
- 10 mins 14 secs The big organic debate with Robin Page
- 22 mins 13 secs Worm facts with Monty
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Wiggly Podcast 0072Blackthorn is not Plant of the Week
Length: 25 mins 34 secs | First netcast on Feb 26 2007 - Richard is away learning about the safe use of a chainsaw, so Alison joins Heather and Farmer Phil on the Wiggly Sofa instead. There's some feedback about the use of Blackthorn in a native hedge, which, for some at least, is definitely not plant of the week. But Alison comes to the rescue with a plant that definitely is, Wild Garlic. It even goes with peanut butter.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 29 secs Richard's dangerous missions
- 04 mins 23 secs An update on last week's calf
- 10 mins 38 secs "Shut up" about cats
- 11 mins 30 secs The trouble with Blackthorn
- 19 mins 20 secs Plant of the Week - Wild Garlic
- 23 mins 42 secs The Wormcast
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Wiggly Podcast 0071A Star is Born
Length: 10 mins 53 secs | First netcast on Feb 19 2007 - Farmer Phil helps bring another new life into the world.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 15 secs Intro to calf biology
- 02 mins 14 secs Farmer Phil gets stuck in
- 07 mins 12 secs The calf is born!
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Wiggly Podcast 0070Chinese Christmas
Length: 24 mins 00 secs | First netcast on Feb 12 2007 - It's the week before the Chinese New Year so, with impeccable logic, it must be Chinese Christmas... With the Team away, Heather introduces a piece recorded in Farmer Phil's cowshed on December 25th and we get to hear just what happened when those Squirrel Burgers made it to the table.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 35 secs A poignant (or pungent) moment in the cowshed on Christmas morning
- 09 mins 24 secs Robin Page tries squirrel burgers
- 15 mins 46 secs We discuss squirrel conservation
- 18 mins 57 secs Country folk in journalism
- 20 mins 02 secs The squirrel burgers receive their all important chocolate rating
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Wiggly Podcast 0069The Countryside Restoration Trust
Length: 24 mins 05 secs | First netcast on Feb 05 2007 - Richard invites Robin Page, the founder and chairman of the Countryside Restoration Trust, onto the Wiggly Sofa.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 20 secs Introducing Robin Page
- 03 mins 06 secs Some foody reviews
- 04 mins 53 secs Are eagle owls the solution to the cat debate? Robin thinks so...
- 09 mins 12 secs The Countryside Restoration Trust
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Wiggly Podcast 0068Catastrophe
Length: 25 mins 01 secs | First netcast on Jan 29 2007 - Here's the second half of last week's show. Despite having only two microphones between them, Heather, Karen and Phil gang up on Richard over his stance on cats. Ranting ensues...
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 38 secs Is Richard a hypocrite?
- 05 mins 38 secs Karen has done her homework on native cats
- 08 mins 00 secs Life = destruction
- 11 mins 17 secs Some information from the RSPB and a call for tolerance
- 14 mins 26 secs Farmer Phil chips in
- 18 mins 03 secs Plant of the Week...or not - Richard's not finished yet!
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Wiggly Podcast 0067Eco is a four letter word
Length: 28 mins 42 secs | First netcast on Jan 22 2007 - There's plenty of feedback from listeners; unfortunately some of it concerns cats. Karen - who is not a serial killer - joins the team. Richard becomes a ladder consultant, just in time to save Billy from doing a particularly active impression of Mary Poppins. And Monty joins in with another wormcast. Still, cats have been invoked so the conversation was never going to fit into a single show... Continued next week.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 01 mins 06 secs We're not just about wiggly wormies - help us with a new slogan!
- 06 mins 25 secs Richard adds 'ladder consultant' to his job description
- 10 mins 26 secs Lots more feedback...
- 16 mins 10 secs How shooting could help wild birds
- 19 mins 25 secs Monty's wormcast
- 19 mins 41 secs Karen knew we were 'mad' before she came for her interview - why did she still want to work here
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Wiggly Podcast 0066Podchef!
Length: 32 mins 47 secs | First netcast on Jan 15 2007 - A special edition this week as Heather hosts an extended conversation with Neal Foley, the Podchef!
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Wiggly Podcast 0065The Trouble with Farmers is...
Length: 27 mins 39 secs | First netcast on Jan 08 2007 - LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) organised a farmers' training day at the local village hall. To get the attendees nicely steamed-up, the final session before luch consisted of four speakers giving their thoughts on the topic 'The trouble with Farmers is...', no wonder there were lots of chocolate biscuits left over.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 00 mins 44 secs What is LEAF day?
- 04 mins 14 secs The Podchef gives his opinions on the the 'trouble with farmers'
- 07 mins 49 secs Next up, Dick Barker on farmers and supermarkets
- 12 mins 30 secs Richard isn't afraid to tackle this issue
- 16 mins 56 secs The final speaker Tim Kidson...
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Wiggly Podcast 0064That was better, wasn't it?
Length: 55 mins 07 secs | First netcast on Jan 01 2007 - Happy New Year to you all from the Wiggly Team. Here's a bumper length edition to celebrate the turning of the year ...a compilation featuring some of Heather's favourite moments from the first year (and a bit) of the Wiggly Podcast.
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- Heather's Highlights:
- 05 mins 25 secs Lets get Bokashi into the Houses of Parliament
- 09 mins 40 secs Cow magnets
- 15 mins 54 secs Night noises
- 40 mins 25 secs "Where's the music?"
- 46 mins 26 secs Anita Roddick's most hated Wiggly product...
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