TV series
The Green Planet
Overview
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.
Details
- First air date
- 2022-01-09
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 5 episodes
- Genres
- Documentary
- Network
- BBC One
- Production
- BBC Studios Natural History Unit, ZDF, bilibili, France Télévisions, CCTV
- Country
- GB
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- David Attenborough as Self - Narrator (voice)
Creators and crew
- Mike Gunton - Executive Producer
- Rupert Barrington - Producer
- Paul Williams - Producer
- Elisabeth Oakham - Producer
- Peter Bassett - Producer
- Rosie Thomas - Producer
Episodes
Episode 1: Tropical Worlds
Tropical 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.
Episode 2: Water Worlds
Water 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.
Episode 3: Seasonal Worlds
Plants 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.
Episode 4: Desert Worlds
Desert 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.
Episode 5: Human Worlds
Two 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.
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