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Apples: British to the Core

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Chris Beardshaw

Emma Boswell

Clare Sillery

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15/06/2011

BBC Four - Apples: British to the Core

Chris Beardshaw looks at how Britain has helped to shape the history of the apple.

Chris Beardshaw uncovers the British contribution to the history of our most iconic fruit and sees how 20th-century British scientists helped create the modern mass-market apple.

Horticulturalist Chris Beardshaw uncovers the British contribution to the history of our most iconic fruit. He reveals the 'golden age', when the passion and dedication of Victorian gardeners gave us more varieties than anywhere else in the world. Chris also finds out how the remarkable ingenuity of a small group of 20th-century British scientists helped create the modern mass-market apple.

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