James Wong
Description:
James Wong is a Kew-trained ethnobotanist, with a passion for adventure. Specialising in the study of how people use plants, ethnobotany is a fusion of anthropology and botany, covering a huge range of subjects from new drug discovery, to reconstructing the diet of stone age man.
James' new BBC2 show Grow Your Own Drugs is currently on air and the Grow Your Own Drugs book which runs along side the series is also published this month. In this exciting new series James is cooking up home made herbal remedies for a variety of common ailments. In April James will be joining BBC1's Countryfile team. Last year James was one of the regular Fossil Detectives on the show of the same name which was broadcast initially on BBC4 and the repeated on BBC2. He has also appeared on BBC's Gardeners' World, Channel 4's Richard & Judy, The Alan Titchmarsh Show on ITV and BBC Breakfast.
He has written for a number of publications, from the BBC Gardening Website, to The Metro's environment column, on a wide range of botanical topics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00j3ktd/Grow_Your_Own_Drugs_Fruit/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2009/wk14/mon.shtml#mon_growdrugs