Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively

The Fashionable Garden

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 8^th Nov 2017, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Thu 8^th Apr 2021, 02:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Penelope Lively considers gardening according to the dictates of fashion.

Read by Stephanie Cole.

Penelope uses the garden to break open the world for us, and examines how we might encourage our lives to bloom.

Abridged by Siân Preece

Producer: Eilidh McCreadie.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. Show less