Life in the Garden

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Stephanie Cole

Penelope Lively

Sian Preece

Eilidh McCreadie

Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively: The Written Garden

The Written Garden

Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively

BBC Radio 4 - Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively, The Written Garden

Penelope Lively's memoir of her life in gardens is read by Stephanie Cole.

Penelope Lively's meditation on gardening, literature and creativity explores gardens in fiction. Read by Stephanie Cole.

Penelope Lively's intimate meditation on gardening, literature and creativity continues as she turns her attention to the garden in fiction.

Read by Stephanie Cole.

Penelope Lively 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.

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