From Roots to Riches: the power of plants - podcast

This week on Science Weekly, Professor Kathy Willis, director of science at Kew Gardens, talks about her passion for plants and the 25-part BBC radio series she will present, dedicated to 250 years of botanical science. Kathy was in conversation with Nicola Davis, commissioning editor of Observer Tech Monthly.

From Roots to Riches goes out on Radio 4 at 1.45pm starting on Monday and will be available again on the BBC iPlayer.

Guardian science editor Ian Sample is joined by Adam Vaughan from the environment desk to hail the return of the beaver to Devon in England after a 500-year absence. Plus, Nashid Karim, British Association media fellow and PhD student at Leicester University's Space Research Centre, discusses the recent government announcement of possible sites for a UK spaceport.

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