PlanetPotato Number 6: Lights! Camera! Action! Making movies and metaphorically meeting Mr Potato Head
Description
PlanetPotato is back after its summer break and it's time to go to the movies! Hosts Anna Lambert (potato fan) and Cedric Porter (potato market expert) look at the spud's role on the silver screen and chart Mr Potato Head's meteoric rise from cereal-box freebie to toy-box - and film - superstar. Plus the winner of the (International) Potato Photographer of the Year competition, details of a potato-print auction for charity and, of course, a soothing recitation of potato-variety names...
Very special guest star: Chris Bensch of The Strong National Museum of Play - details here
Details of Molly Mahon's auction of artists' potato prints in aid of Charleston here (and Molly's own print is shown above)
Details of the winning entries for the (International) Potato Photographer of the Year prize here
H&Is of potato varieties read by Bridgid Ryan.