“an excellent, nicely original, elegantly made film”

Richard Klein Controller
– BBC Four

“An engaging documentary… the story of weeds is a tangled mess and it was well told here”

Telegraph

THE WONDER OF WEEDS

Horticulturalist Chris Collins goes on a counter intuitive journey to find out more about the infuriatingly hardy opportunistic plants we call weeds.

He talks to experts in botanical history, genetics, pharmaceuticals and wild food and discovers there is far more to the humble weed than we might have thought.

A specialist factual science commission for BBC Four's Botany season.

TV Choice

Guardian / Times / Radio Times / Telegraph