The Wonder of Weeds
Travelling around the UK and meeting experts in botanical history, genetics, pharmaceuticals and wild food, Chris Collins tells the story behind the plants most people call weeds.
Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins celebrates the humble and sometimes hated plants we call weeds. He discovers that there is no such thing as a weed, botanically speaking, and that in fact what we call a weed has changed again and again over the last three hundred years. Chris uncovers the story of our changing relationship with weeds - in reality, the story of the battle between wilderness and civilisation. He finds out how weeds have been seen as beautiful and useful in the past, and sees how their secrets are being unlocked today in order to transform our crops.
Finally, Chris asks whether, in our quest to eliminate Japanese Knotweed or Rhododendron Ponticum, we are really engaged in an arms race we can never win. We remove weeds from our fields and gardens at our peril.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Chris Collins |
Producer | Johnni Javier |
Executive Producer | Alistair Pegg |
Executive Producer | Fenton Bailey |
Director | Graham Strong |
Broadcasts
- Wed 22 Jun 2011 21:00
- Wed 22 Jun 2011 22:30麻豆官网首页入口 HD
- Thu 23 Jun 2011 01:00麻豆官网首页入口 HD
- Thu 23 Jun 2011 02:55
- Sat 25 Jun 2011 20:00
- Sat 12 Nov 2011 19:00
- Sun 13 Nov 2011 03:10
- Sun 11 Aug 2013 19:00
- Mon 7 Apr 2014 00:00
- Wed 28 Oct 2015 00:00