Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively

Time, Order and the Garden

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 9^th Nov 2017, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Fri 9^th Apr 2021, 02:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Penelope's intimate meditation on gardening, literature and creativity continues as she presents gardening as the ultimate defiance of time.

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