Trees
The Essay. The Meaning of Trees, Cypress. Audio, 15 minutes
Fiona Stafford discusses the Leyland cypress or leylandii.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Meaning of Trees, Horse Chestnut. Audio, 15 minutes
Professor Fiona Stafford discusses the horse chestnut tree.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. The Meaning of Trees, The Meaning of Trees: Poplar. Audio, 15 minutes
Fiona Stafford on the poplar, the most modern tree and the first to have its DNA sequenced
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. The Meaning of Trees, The Meaning of Trees: Apple. Audio, 15 minutes
Fiona Stafford discusses the apple tree, which has been loved and hated for centuries.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. The Meaning of Trees, The Meaning of Trees: Hawthorn. Audio, 15 minutes
Professor Fiona Stafford on hawthorn trees, which have divided Britain for centuries.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. The Meaning of Trees, The Meaning of Trees: Pine. Audio, 15 minutes
Professor Fiona Stafford on the workhorse of the forest, the pine tree.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Andy's Dinosaur Adventures. Brachiosaurus and Monkey Puzzle. Video, 13 minutes
Andy travels back 150 million years to the time of brachiosaurus.
- AttributionCBeebies
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Nature. Series 8, James and the Giant Atlas Cedars. Audio, 28 minutes
Professional tree climber James Aldred visits Morocco to climb a giant Atlas cedar tree.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Why Factor. Trees of Life. Audio, 18 minutes
Why are our feelings about trees so mixed? Mike Williams explains
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Living World. Native Lime. Audio, 22 minutes
Chris Sperring is in Hampshire looking at lime trees with lime tree specialist Hugh Milner
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Long View. Dutch Elm Disease and Ash Dieback. Audio, 28 minutes
Jonathan Freedland explores tree disease by charting Dutch Elm Disease from the 1920s.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Nature. Series 6, Wood and Water. Audio, 28 minutes
Brett Westwood finds out why conservationists are dropping logs in rivers and streams.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Nature. Series 5, James and the Giant Redwood - Part Two. Audio, 28 minutes
James Aldred visits the Grove of Titans and climbs the world's tallest tree.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Nature. Series 5, James and the Giant Redwoods - Part One. Audio, 28 minutes
James Aldred travels to California in search of the world's biggest trees.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Living World. 28/11/2010. Audio, 22 minutes
Lionel Kelleway travels to Herefordshire to marvel at Britain's ancient trees,.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Nature. Series 4, Britain's Rarest Trees. Audio, 30 minutes
Brett Westwood joins botanist Tim Rich to look for the whitebeam trees.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Nature. Caledonian Pine. Audio, 30 minutes
Brett Westwood investigates plans to expand Scotland's pine forests.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Nature. Trees and Risk. Audio, 30 minutes
Paul Evans assesses the future of our urban trees.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Ancient Briton. Video, 7 minutes
Ted Green talks about a 600-year-old oak tree in Windsor Great Park.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 15 days
Global Concerns. The Growth Rings of Trees. Audio, 13 minutes
The shape of tree rings indicates a relative warming of the world over the last 100 years
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Global Concerns. Aerial Seed Bombers. Audio, 14 minutes
Reforestation by dropping trees from airplanes in icecream cone-shaped delivery packages
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Global Concerns. Dead Wood. Audio, 14 minutes
How dead trees provide food and shelter for wildlife - and shouldn't be cut down
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Global Concerns. Oldest Living Organism. Audio, 14 minutes
The world's oldest organism - at 11,000 years old - is believed to be a Huon pine tree
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year