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Are music and gardens good for your health and wellbeing?

Katie Derham delves into the surprising connections between classical music and gardens. 

In the last episode of this series, Katie chats to professor of psychobiology Daisy Fancourt about why music and gardens are beneficial to our physical and mental health, before hearing from baritone Roderick Williams about how his garden helps him balance the pressures of an international performance career.

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.

Katie Derham delves into the surprising connections between classical music and plants.

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