‘The Rotten World About Us’
Ink caps, parasols, stinkhorns, earthstars, death caps and puff balls are all necessary agents of putrefication and decay essential to life on this planet. Their various roles as members of the fungi family combine to create “The Rotten World About Us,” which will be investigated in “Our World” on Two on Sunday at 6 p.m. This is a look at fungi — from those that live in the
depths of Scottish bagpipes to those that have groundec aircraft or halted the Navy and in the case of the potatc blight those which alterec the'course of history. This programme will unravel the mysteries of mushrooms anc moulds- and show how fung feed, grow and multiply There are fungi that laj traps for worms and others that can kill flies. They may at times, revolt us — ye' fungi also cure, feed anc
delight us. Filming took nearly two years to complete, mainly due to the wait for filming techniques to catch up with the special needs of so unusual a subject,. Only through the availability of both light and electron microscopes combined with special timelapse earners' Could the amazing structures and varied lifestyles of the mushrooms and moulds be revealed.
The result, says TVNZ, is as stunning as it is technically brilliant, with a good deal of credit to the exceptional expertise of the photographers and sheer doggedness of the producer, Barry Paine, who finally realised his ambition to make such a programme after 20 years.
"The Rotten World About Us” was produced by the BBC’s natural history unit in Bristol.
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Press, 21 July 1982, Page 18
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