Marc Finnell
speaker
240 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
Marc Finnell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 2.
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Sound design was by Angie Grant.
Now, if you have a story idea for us, I know I say it every time, but I do mean it.
Anything.
It could be even like really undercooked.
and you're like, oh, I heard this idea at a friend's barbecue and I'd love to know if it's real, just let us know.
Let us do the hard work for you.
Email us, noonesawitcoming at abc.net.au.
And of course, if you enjoyed the show and you think a friend might like it, just flick it onto them, send them a link.
No One Saw It Coming, it is made on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia for ABC Radio National.
I'm Mark Finnell and I'll be back next week with a brand new episode.
Until then, bye.
on the ABC Listen app.
We are in London, at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
It is dirty and polluted because, well, it's London at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
Now that is a particularly challenging time if you, my friend, are into gardening.
And yet people here in London, they are determined, nay, obsessed with plants, trees, botany of all kind from the furthest reaches of Earth.
And that is a problem because transporting these valuable plants from all around the world to London...
Just imagine you spent all this money getting this plant here, you crack open the crate and inside is nothing but soil and dead sticks.
But all of that changed when a doctor invented a device that would shift the global balance of power.
My name is Mark Finnell, and this is the saga of how a houseplant addict, some exotic botany, and one curious box rewrote the fate of an empire.
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