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Plants: From Roots to Riches
Our changing relationship with plants over the last 250 years - from tools to exploit, to objects of beauty, to being an essential global resource we have to conserve. Presented by Prof Kathy Willis.

A Rose by Any Other Name

The 18th century's age of travel and enlighte...

: 13 minutes : 21-Jul-2014

Plants to Shape Society

The 18th century botanical impresario Sir Jos...

: 14 minutes : 22-Jul-2014

Pressed Plants and Possibilities

The Victorians realised that preserving the s...

: 14 minutes : 23-Jul-2014

Blight on the Landscape

Out of the tragedy of the Irish potato famine...

: 14 minutes : 24-Jul-2014

Lumping and Splitting

By 1850 identifying and classifying plants ha...

: 14 minutes : 25-Jul-2014

Taming the Exotic

To the Victorians the Amazonian water lily wa...

: 14 minutes : 28-Jul-2014

Tapping into Rubber

Natural rubber derived from latex had long be...

: 13 minutes : 29-Jul-2014

Orchidmania

Orchids are big business. Today over £5m of ...

: 14 minutes : 30-Jul-2014

Plant Invaders

The Victorians' pride at the effortless movem...

: 14 minutes : 31-Jul-2014

Patterns from Crossed Peas

In 1900 three papers by three botanists, unkn...

: 13 minutes : 01-Aug-2014

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