Merlin Sheldrakes book Entangled Life [1] has rather taken the world by storm
since it was published in 2020, appearing on the best-seller lists in both the
UK and USA. Subtitled How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our
Futures, it constitutes a comprehensive overview of our current scientific
understanding of fungi, from the extraordinary hidden networks of the wood wide
web to their potential to solve our problems of waste disposal.
Merlin describes himself as a biologist (he has a PhD from Cambridge
University), a musician and keen fermenter. He spoke to Carolyn Markson and
John Brown about why this hitherto invisible world of interconnected life is
revealing itself to us fascinating world of fungi and its myriad implications.
