My ears pricked up during an excellent school performance of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ last night on hearing that one of the lines mentions George Washington Carver (1864-1943) who was born into slavery but rose to become one of the most eminent agricultural scientists in the USA. I’m now just kicking myself that I didn’t know about his namecheck in the man-eating plant-based musical when I wrote about him in the paperback version of my book ‘The Man in the Monkeynut Coat’…
