This documentary series about plants is the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, inter-connected world, full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes in the plant world. Planet Earth from the perspective of plants.
Cast: David Attenborough
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Season 1
5 episodes
1. Tropical WorldsTropical rainforests are plant battlegrounds. New filming techniques allow us to enter the world of plants to see it from their perspective and on their timescale.TV-PGCC59minJan 9, 2022
2. Water WorldsWater plants create beautiful, bizarre worlds. Flowers smother rivers and lakes. Plants fight and hunt. A river bubbles like champagne as plants create the atmosphere itself.TV-PGCC58minJan 16, 2022
3. Seasonal WorldsPlants of the seasonal world face constant change. They use use strategy, deception and feats of engineering to survive. Most importantly, they must get their timing right.TV-PGCC58minJan 23, 2022
4. Desert WorldsDesert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage and surprising alliances with animals.TV-PGCC59minJan 30, 2022
5. Human WorldsTwo out of five wild plants are threatened with extinction. Today people are finding remarkable ways to help them, and so make our world a little greener and a little wilder.TV-PGCC58minFeb 6, 2022
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This documentary series about plants is the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, inter-connected world, full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes in the plant world. Planet Earth from the perspective of plants.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Elisabeth Oakham
- Created by
- Rupert Barrington, Mike Gunton
- Studio
- BBC Studios Natural History Unit, ZDF, bilibili
