Watch Kingdom of Plants

BBC World News presents a one-of-a-kind documentary series about easily preventable illnesses in poverty-stricken areas across the world. From Brazil to the Congo to the Phillippines, low-income populations are contracting malaria, tuberculosis and other life-threatening diseases. What steps are being taken to combat these neglected diseases in the developing regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas?

BBC World News presents a one-of-a-kind documentary series about easily preventable illnesses in poverty-stricken areas across the world. From Brazil to the Congo to the Phillippines, low-income populations are contracting malaria, tuberculosis and other life-threatening diseases. What steps are being taken to combat these neglected diseases in the developing regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas?

BBC World News presents a one-of-a-kind documentary series about easily preventable illnesses in poverty-stricken areas across the world. From Brazil to the Congo to the Phillippines, low-income populations are contracting malaria, tuberculosis and other life-threatening diseases. What steps are being taken to combat these neglected diseases in the developing regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas?

BBC World News presents a one-of-a-kind documentary series about easily preventable illnesses in poverty-stricken areas across the world. From Brazil to the Congo to the Phillippines, low-income populations are contracting malaria, tuberculosis and other life-threatening diseases. What steps are being taken to combat these neglected diseases in the developing regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas?

BBC World News presents a one-of-a-kind documentary series about easily preventable illnesses in poverty-stricken areas across the world. From Brazil to the Congo to the Phillippines, low-income populations are contracting malaria, tuberculosis and other life-threatening diseases. What steps are being taken to combat these neglected diseases in the developing regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas?

David discovers the plants that have evolved to shed their dependency on water enabling them to survive in the driest environments.

David begins with the secret world of plant movement and uses sinister carnivorous plants to show just how active plants can be. As the seasons change, David demonstrates how plants operate on a different time scale to us; how they modify their lives according to the time of year.

David begins his journey inside the magnificent Palm House, a unique global rain forest in London. He explores the extraordinary plants that are so well adapted to wet and humid environments and unravels the intimate relationships between wet zone plants and the animals that depend on them.