Episode 4: Charming Personalities

05/03/23 • 31 min

In the Lonely Planet Guide, the editors provide one simple admonishment to travelers considering a journey to Panama’s Darien Gap: “Don’t even think about it!” But that didn’t deter English orchid enthusiast Tom Hart Dyke, who plunged into the forest in 2000 to see orchids – but ended up spending ten months in captivity.

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Bad Seeds - Episode 4: Charming Personalities

Transcript

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School of humans. Just be clear, I'm an absolute idiot, and so it's my friend that was with me. We should never have gone, and obviously not recommending the experience because you know you're going to die. That's Tom hart Dyke and Tom Well, he's an orchid lover. Back in two thousand, his zeal for these precious blooms even got him into i'd say a little bit of trouble. I'll let him tell the story. I met this chap called Paul Window, also from Eng