The Flowering of Britain
An exploration with Richard Mabey Why are birthwort, milkwort and the primrose so named? Why do we find sheets of bluebells in some woods and not in others? Why do poppies suddenly appear on newly turned ground?
RICHARD MABEY guides us through the countryside from the Dales to Devon, from Kent to the New Forest. He tells us a new and intriguing story about the 5,000-year-old partnership between ourselves and our flora, and how we've taken them into our medicine chests, gardens, into children's stories, adult myths and religion.
Film cameraman HUGH MAYNARD Film editor LAURIE JONES Produced by CAROLINE WEAVER Series editors
ANTHONY ISAACS and PETER JONES BBC Bristol