“We delve into the world of plants to take their perspective, to understand how they live in this parallel universe,” says Mike Gunton, executive producer of new nature documentary The Green Planet, Sundays on BBC Earth (*184) at 16:00. “Because we are human beings, we’re very visual, very auditory. We use our senses. And so we assume all life must sense the planet like that. But if you step through this magical window into the plants’ world, you suddenly see that they experience the world in a different way. You have to find a way of using the camera to act as a translator to take you through their secret portal into their world.”
Rosie Thomas, who produced the show, adds, “There are stories about forests where trees can communicate…