{"id":642,"date":"2012-05-19T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2012-05-20T03:29:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T08:29:05","slug":"bbc-radio-4-at-hartslock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"In Pursuit of the Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the fun of being part of a new BBC Radio 4 series called &#8220;In Pursuit of the Ridiculous&#8221;, with Matthew Oates, Brett Westwood and Andy Byfield. The Hartslock episode covers the conservation of hybrids and whether we worry too much about hybridisation. The weather wasn&#8217;t all that good but luckily Wendy Tobitt from BBOWT was on hand to take some photos:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-642 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_0059-1024x768.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_0059-1024x768-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-644\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-644'>\n\t\t\t\tBrett coaches me on what to say after Matthew has done his intro\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_0077-1024x768.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_0077-1024x768-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-643\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-643'>\n\t\t\t\tGiles Alder wonders when the drizzle will stop while we discuss the merits of hybridisation as a natural process\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em>(all photos copyright Wendy Tobitt &amp; BBOWT, 2012)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the fun of being part of a new BBC Radio 4 series called &#8220;In Pursuit of the Ridiculous&#8221;, with Matthew Oates,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}