How to Grow a Planet

{{Short description|2012 BBC documentary television series}}

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| genre = Nature documentary

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| director = Nick Shoolingin-Jordan
Nigel Walk

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| presenter = Iain Stewart

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| composer = Paul Leonard-Morgan

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| language = English

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| executive_producer = Mark Hedgecoe

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| runtime = 59 minutes

| company = BBC Productions

| channel = BBC Two

| first_aired = {{Start date|df=yes|2012|02|07}}

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How to Grow a Planet is a 2012 television nature documentary series produced by the BBC on and originally broadcast on BBC Two. It is presented by Professor Iain Stewart{{Cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/how-to-grow-a-planet---bbc2-675467|title=How to Grow a Planet – BBC2, 9pm|first=Jane|last=Simon|date=7 February 2012|website=mirror}} and ran for three 60 minute episodes in February 2012. It covers the role of plants in shaping the planet, altering the atmosphere, the evolution of ecological relationships and their role in shaping human evolution.