The Green Planet TV Listings

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Tropical Worlds Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, April 27 on U&Yesterday (27)

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The Green Planet is scheduled to air at these times (may include spoilers):

  • Mon 27

    Tropical Worlds
    — The Green Planet

    Season 1 · Episode 1

    David Attenborough presents a guide to the lives of plants in environments around the world, beginning with the plant battlegrounds of the tropical rainforests. New filming techniques allow viewers to enter the plants' world and see it from their perspective, and on their timescale. Featuring fast-growing trees, flowers that mimic dead animals, and life and death battles to absorb much-needed sunlight

    More details for The Green Planet, Mon 27, 11:00 pm
  • Tue 28

    Water Worlds
    — The Green Planet

    Season 1 · Episode 2

    David Attenborough presents a guide to the world of plants that grow in water, including a bubbling river in Brazil, where the plants have created their own atmosphere and a lake smothered in brightly-coloured flowers. Plus, plants that fight each other for growing space or use natural adhesives to prevent themselves being swept downstream, and a look at the methods used to evade or even attack animals

    More details for The Green Planet, Tue 28, 11:00 pm
  • Wed 29

    Seasonal Worlds
    — The Green Planet

    Season 1 · Episode 3

    The strategy, deception and feats of engineering plants use to thrive in the changing weather of different seasons. In the face of conditions ranging from ice and snow to raging fires, survival is often a question of perfect timing - particularly when contending with intense competition and surprising predators

    More details for The Green Planet, Wed 29, 11:00 pm
  • Thu 30

    Desert Worlds
    — The Green Planet

    Season 1 · Episode 4

    Plants that have developed to thrive in the desert, including cacti that grow in the shade of other trees and collect water in pleated trunks that expand and contract - but can also find themselves a host to other plants, like desert mistletoe. The programme also reveals how tobacco plants being eaten by caterpillars are able to summon the creatures' natural predators, and how tumbleweeds roll across the landscape, only unfurling and growing when they encounter rain

    More details for The Green Planet, Thu 30, 11:00 pm