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You and Yours: Wedding Bereavement; Covid and House Sharing; Gardening Magazines

07/09/2020

Wedding Bereavement; Covid and House Sharing; Gardening Magazines

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Wedding Bereavement; Covid and House Sharing; Gardening Magazines

The family struggling to get a refund for a wedding, after the bride sadly passed away.

The sharp rise in readers of a modest gardening magazine.

A lot of weddings have been cancelled because of the pandemic and a lot of people are struggling to get their money back.   We'll hear from a family that contacted You and Yours with a  particularly heart-breaking story.  Niamh Jarvis-Smith who was in her twenties died suddenly in June from acute pancreatitis. Her wedding to Drew Taylor had already been postponed until next year because of Coronavirus.    The couple had paid three thousand pounds towards the cost of their reception - but have been unable to get the money back.  We'll speak to Niamh's dad Darren Ganderton-Smith, and attempt to contact the venue too.

We keep hearing about the push to get people back to work. Today more rail services are being added to help commuters, but what is it like for those who can't or don't feel ready to go back? We talk to younger people about what it's like to work from home when the only space you have to yourself is probably your bedroom

And, a magazine aimed at the horticulture industry with a modest 25,000 readers at the start of the year, now has almost 300,000 readers - ten times as many as before. Horticulture Week comes out very month. It's been going a long time - since 1841, when Charles Darwin used to write in to the letters page.   We'll speak to its Editor, Matthew Appleby about that.

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Jess Quayle

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