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Mark Tully celebrates the healing power of gardens. In 2011, he talked to Rev Lizzie Hopthrow, Chaplain of Pilgrims` Hospice Canterbury, about the hope her hospice garden provides.

Mark Tully celebrates the healing power of gardens. In July 2011, he talked to Rev Lizzie Hopthrow, Chaplain of the Pilgrims` Hospice in Canterbury, about how her hospice garden brings hope to patients and their families.

With poetry from 14th century Persia, to contemporary writers Karl Capek and Diana Athill, and music by de Falla, June Tabor and Stevie Wonder.

Producer: Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 14 Aug 202223:30
BBC Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder - The First Garden

  • June Tabor

    Rose in June

    • Rosa Mundi.
    • Topic.
    • B001H74ROA.
    • 1.

  • Billy Mayerl

    Marigolds

    • Billy Mayerl plays Billy Mayerl.
    • Flapper.
    • B000024ETJ.
    • 6.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the Gardens of Spain

    • Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez.
    • Decca.
    • B0000041YL.
    • 4.

  • Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

    Composer: Elizabeth Poston

    • Carols from King’s.
    • Classics for Pleasure.
    • B0000E6POW.
    • 27.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 3 Jul 201106:05
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 3 Jul 201123:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 14 Aug 202206:05
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 14 Aug 202223:30
    BBC Radio 4