Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: an evening with Richard Fortey

Richard Fortey has spent much of  his lifetime searching for rare and extraordinary fungi, in a quest to understand the importance of ‘the forgotten kingdom' in the web of nature. He takes us on  his journey to meet luminous brackets, stinkhorns and stranglers, and many other bizarre and wonderful mushrooms and toadstools, ranging from the ugliest and strangest species to the beautiful silky rosegill. This is a celebration of fungi in all their different  roles - both in the natural world and in our own lives.

Richard Fortey has appeared on several of David Attenborough’s programmes, and made BBC and Discovery series of his own. A leading star in the world of paleontology he was senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum and has written many award winnning books.