Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,939 playable programmes from the BBC

Front Row

Capability Brown

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Capability Brown, born 300 years ago this year, changed the landscape of Georgian England.

John Wilson visits Chatsworth House in Derbyshire where the Duke of Devonshire describes what it's like to live in a Brown design and Head Gardener Steve Porter explains how Brown shaped the estate.

At the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Library Fiona Davison shows John Capability Brown's original accounts book, and Ceryl Evans, Director of the Capability Brown Festival, paints a picture of his background and influences.

Garden designer Dan Pearson discusses Capability Brown's influence on him, and his impact on our appreciation of the English landscape.

Performance poets Joe Cook and Aliya Denton share their poems inspired by Capability Brown, and Anisa Haghdadi from Beatfreeks explains how she's working with Warwick Castle to engage young people from diverse backgrounds with Brown's work and explore the socio-economic context of it.

The Duchess of Rutland and her Estate Manager Phil Burtt describe the work they're been doing at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire to reinstate Capability Brown's long lost plans for the landscape there. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Peregrine Cavendish
Interviewed Guest:
Steve Porter
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Davison
Interviewed Guest:
Ceryl Evans
Interviewed Guest:
Dan Pearson
Interviewed Guest:
Joe Cook
Interviewed Guest:
Aliya Denton
Interviewed Guest:
Anisa Haghdadi
Interviewed Guest:
Emma Manners
Interviewed Guest:
Phil Burtt
Producer:
Dixi Stewart

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More