Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

The Essay Podcast

The Essay

Discussion & Talk

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: Lines of Work

The Essay: Lines of Work: Episode 5: Lines of Work: Gardener Jackie Bennett on Francis Bacon

Lines of Work

Episode 5

Episode 5: Lines of Work: Gardener Jackie Bennett on Francis Bacon

Lines of Work: Gardener Jackie Bennett on Francis Bacon

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Lines of Work, Lines of Work: Gardener Jackie Bennett on Francis BaconClose menu

Gardener Jackie Bennett responds to Elizabethan thinker Francis Bacon's essay Of Gardens.

Gardener Jackie Bennett responds to the ideas and principles laid out by Elizabethan thinker Francis Bacon in his essay Of Gardens.

In Lines of Work prominent people in a particular job read and reflect on the writings of an illustrious forebear. In this essay the gardener Jackie Bennett responds to the ideas and principles laid out by the Elizabethan thinker Francis Bacon in his Essay 'Of Gardens'.

Producer: James Cook.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

People in particular jobs reflect on the writings of a forebear from the same trade

Series in which people in a particular line of work read and reflect on the writings of a forebear from the same trade

Accessibility links

Programme Index

The Essay

Lines of Work

Episode 5: Lines of Work: Gardener Jackie Bennett on Francis Bacon

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3