Main content

Trees Episodes

  1.

    Jungle Concern

    How much rain forest is left? And what is a poor country to do with its natural wealth?

  2. The Green Man

    The evolution and re-emergence of archetypal nature figures

  3. The Tree House

    How the dream of every child is used across world and even has a place in history

  4. The Damage of Paper

    How the humble wasp caused a revolution in paper-making...and changed the world forever

  5. The Language of Trees

    The trees' place in literature from the poet Edward Thomas to author JRR Tolkein

  6. The War on Trees

    The "ecocide" of Vietnam's forests caused by American bombing during the Vietnam War

  7. Africa's Greenbelt Movement

    The growing grass-roots environmental movement in Africa

  8. Bradfield Woods in Suffolk

    A visit to a centuries old forest in England

  9. Types of Trees

    The extraordinary variety of the world's trees and their chances for survival

  10. What is a Tree?

    How trees can be used to provide sweeteners, vanilla, latex and glue...

  11. The State of the World's Forests

    "There is a cause for alarm" says Professor Sir Ghillean Prance. "Now is the time to act"

  12. Trees

    The science, art, and sometimes veneration of trees