Botany: A Blooming History

Last night at 9pm hell froze over – the BBC broadcast a programme about plant taxonomy on a mainstream TV network.

Did you see it? I thought not, it was tucked away on BBC4. It was excellent and well worth watching – available for UK viewers on the BBC iPlayer. This is the way we have to go if we’re going to reverse this sort of thing.

About AJ Cann

Alan Cann is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of Leicester and Internet Consulting Editor for AoB.