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Plants to Shape Society

How plants proved a new route to political power and the growth of Britain's Empire.

• 15 mins

Pressed Plants and Possibilities

How Kew's pressed plants collection established insights into plant relationships.

• 15 mins

Blight on the Landscape

Out of the tragedy of the Irish potato famine in 1845, a new discipline in science emerged

• 15 mins

Lumping and Splitting

How naturalist Joseph Hooker globally acquired species to build up the first maps of flora

• 15 mins

Taming the Exotic

Kathy Willis examines the Victorian race to flower the Amazonian water lily.

• 15 mins

Tapping into Rubber

Kathy Willis explores the smuggling of rubber seeds from South America.

• 15 mins

Orchidmania

Kathy Willis examines Charles Darwin's use of orchids as a scientific tool.

• 15 mins

Plant Invaders

Kathy Willis on the side effects of effortlessly moving plants and seeds around the world.

• 15 mins

Patterns from Crossed Peas

Kathy Willis on how Mendel's famous pea experiments helped to revolutionise horticulture.

• 15 mins

Towards the Light

Kathy Willis explores the harnessing of plants' ability to photosynthesise their own food.

• 15 mins

Multiple Genes

Kathy Willis examines the mystery of a plant's ability to exist in multiple forms.

• 15 mins

Battling Bark and Beetle

Kathy Willis examines the origin and impact of Dutch elm disease across Europe.

• 15 mins

Hunt for Diversity

Kathy Willis explores Nikolai Vavilov's pioneering search for unused varieties of crops.

• 15 mins

Botanical Medicine

Kathy Willis on how new opportunities opened up for finding medicines from plants.

• 15 mins

Signals of Growth

Uncovering the elusive ways plants move and respond to their surroundings.

• 15 mins

Unlocking Biodiversity

Kathy Willis describes the tools that are proving essential to map the world's flora.

• 15 mins

An Ill Wind

Kathy Willis explores the arboreal benefits that emerged from the great storm of 1987.

• 15 mins

Capsules of Life

Kathy Willis uncovers the role seedbanking plays in conserving worldwide plant diversity.

• 15 mins

A Useful Weed

Kathy Willis explores the legacy behind the mapping of the first plant genome.

• 15 mins

A Blooming Tree of Life

Kathy Willis explores DNA fingerprinting and a new tree of life for plants.

• 15 mins

Dynamic Rainforest

How DNA analysis is providing a new window into the evolution of the tropical rainforest.

• 15 mins

Capture and Drawdown

Kathy Willis examines new insights into plants as regulators of our planet.

• 15 mins

Green and Pleasant Lands

Kathy Willis examines the importance of green landscapes, parks and gardens.

• 15 mins

The Great Providers

Kathy Willis examines how we are building future resilience into our modern crops.

• 15 mins

Omnibus

Episode 1

Kathy Willis explores our changing relationship with plants.

• 57 mins

Omnibus

Episode 2

Kathy Willis explores our changing relationship with plants.

• 15 mins

Omnibus

Episode 3

Prof Kathy Willis explores our changing relationship with plants.

• 58 mins

Omnibus

Episode 4

Kathy Willis explores our changing relationship with plants.

• 58 mins

Omnibus

Episode 5

Final omnibus edition of Prof Kathy Willis's history of our relationship with plants.

• 58 mins