Chris Beardshaw

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Garden designer Chris Beardshaw creates and curate the festival of his wildest dreams. Joining presenter Verity Sharp - it's a chance for Chris to set the festival's agenda, choose the guests, pick the acts, dictate the weather, the food and the ambience. A festival where anyone - dead or alive - can be summoned to perform, and nothing is unimaginable. Chris outlines his dream festival which takes place in an Egyptian Death Garden. It's a festival for a tiny audience and it happens in a small space and short time frame. He wants to take time out with his loved ones to reconsider the detail of life, celebrate craftsmanship and wonder at our place in the universe. He brings music from Pachelbel, Brian Eno and Green Day and poetry from Theo Dorgan. He creates a paradise and, when his festival is over, the Death Garden will be handed over to another festival goer to invite their loved ones to experience their own 24 hour festival in this very special, walled space. And so the festival will be handed ever onwards. Producer: Rosie Boulton A Monty Funk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2016.