The British Garden: Life And Death On Your Lawn

This fascinating one-off documentary sees Chris Packham and a team of wildlife experts spend an entire year exploring every inch of eight gardens on a suburban street, to answer a fundamental question: how good for wildlife is the great British garden?

Beneath the peonies and petunias they reveal a beautiful and brutal hidden world. The extraordinary camerawork we have now come to expect reveals evolutionary battles for survival, such as male crickets bribing females with food during sex and spiders changing colour to help catch prey. Further up the food chain, we discover a single litter of foxes can have up to five different fathers, and Chris witnesses the astonishing sight of a boiling ball of frogs in a once-in-ayear mating frenzy.

Tuesday, BBC4, 9pm