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Thinking Allowed: British working class gardens - Why England fails (at football)

16/04/2014

British working class gardens - Why England fails (at football)

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, British working class gardens - Why England fails (at football)

Exploring a hidden horticultural history, and why England fails at international football.

Gardens of the British Working Class: Laurie Taylor explores a hidden horticultural history. Also, a sociological account of the failures of the English football team.

Gardens of the British Working Class - the historian, Margaret Willes, considers the remarkable feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they planted and loved was not their own: From lush gardens nurtured outside crumbling workers' cottages to 'green' miracles achieved in blackened yards. In doing so, she reveals the ingenious ways in which determined workers transformed drab surroundings. She's joined by Lisa Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, who has explored the ways in which struggles over classed and gendered tastes are played out in our gardens.

Also, 'Why England Fails At Football' - a sociological account of our international 'shame' from Anthony King, Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter

Producer: Torquil Macleod.

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