The Grass Is Greener

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The Grass Is Greener by Tom Fort: 3. Events at a Place Called Thrupp

The Grass Is Greener by Tom Fort

3. Events at a Place Called Thrupp

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Grass Is Greener by Tom Fort, 3. Events at a Place Called Thrupp

How the very first lawn mower was invented in Gloucestershire.

How Edwin Budding invented the first lawn mower in Thrupp, near Stroud, in Gloucestershire back in 1830.  Read by Jeff Rawle.

Tom Fort charts our obsession with the garden lawn: Events at a Place Called Thrupp.

Read by Jeff Rawle.

The Grass is Greener: An Anglo-Saxon Passion is written by Tom Fort. 

Abridged in five parts by Andrew Simpson.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001.

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Jeff Rawle reads Tom Fort's book, charting our obsession with the garden lawn.

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