Life in the Garden

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Sian Preece

Eilidh McCreadie

Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively: Time, Order and the Garden

Time, Order and the Garden

Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively

BBC Radio 4 - Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively, Time, Order and the Garden

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

Penelope Lively's meditation on gardening, presents it as the ultimate defiance of time. Read by Stephanie Cole.

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.

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