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Writers in the Garden: Radio 2 Arts Programme

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A stroll through some literary gardens with Sean Street, who visits Nigel Nicholson at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent to remember the horticultural collaboration between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson.
The poet Edward Storey considers John Clare's love of the green world of the cottager.
James Gibson of the Hardy Society strolls through two of Thomas Hardy's gardens. And at Selborne, Sean discovers plans to reconstruct the garden of Gilbert White as the naturalist knew it and pauses to peruse samples of work inspired by gardens of delight.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Street
Guest:
Nigel Nicholson
Speaker:
Edward Storey
Speaker:
James Gibson
Producer:
Stella Hanson

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