His co-conspirator is often Bunny Guinness, the Telegraph gardening columnist and GQT panellist. “Gardening has so many connotations,” she says. “The swingers and the pampas grass, putting things to bed and banging up against the wall. Sometimes you look at the audience and think it is a bit risqué, but it is always best to just say it – there are two million listeners out there who will love it.” It's been said that her enthusiasm for plants would make even the least green-fingered person sit up and take notice! Carol Klein is the owner of a thriving nursery, and she also writes regularly for the gardening press. For his successor he has nothing but the warmest praise: “She’s a charming lady with a wonderful voice, consummate broadcaster and a great sense of humour”. But the man who has spent decades clipping his panellists like so many wayward roses can’t resist adding: “I will keep listening. I’ve told Kathy that I will and I will be honest with her.” What’s a warm-up? Soul Limbo by Booker T & The MG’s blasts out from the speakers. Anna at the front, the kids lined in rows copying her every move. This way, that way, clap, smile, stomp. That way, this way, stomp, smile, clap. Then it stops and everyone sits.

Monty's first TV work came as the presenter of a gardening segment on breakfast show This Morning and has featured as a guest presenter for the BBC's Holiday programme. He went on to present several Channel 4 land and gardening series: Don Roaming, Fork to Fork, Real Gardens and Lost Gardens, and wrote a regular weekly gardening column for The Observer between February 1994 and May 2006. K: How can you organise a human being according to a pattern? Whether it is a religious pattern – faith, belief, dogma rituals – how can you shape man, who is extraordinarily alive, to a particular mode, like the communists are trying to do? The totalitarians are trying to force man to a certain way of thinking, which is so contrary to freedom. Freedom… I mean, man has always sought throughout history to be free. That was one of his urgent, constant demands – not only from poverty, environmental ugliness and so on, but to be free from the sorrow, pain and anxiety and so on, those things. And how can any structured religious attitude give him freedom? K: Therefore the problem is not you and the conditioning; there is only conditioning. But we have grown in the habit of ‘me and the conditioning; I must do something about it,’ as though I was different from it. Right? So when there is that division, there is conflict. Right? That conflict is totally false; because I and the “it” are the same. Right? The observer is the observed. Are we together in this? So, if that is a fact, which it is, then watch it, without any movement of thought. I don’t know if…

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He's Britain's leading organic gardener, but Bob Flowerdew also runs a consultancy landscape service, teaches at agricultural college and can be heard on Gardeners' Question Time. They are not just guide books, but works of philosophy, explaining among other things Man's impact on the landscape. ER: I know you’ve written that before you can be sure of anything, you have to strip away the conditioning, but how exactly do you do that? I mean, you are presumably conditioned as a Hindu. Scher was appointed MBE in 2013. Two years earlier, she had been a guest on Desert Island Discs, where she said: “Teaching is the love of my life. Teaching is everything for me. It’s my raison d’être.” ER: But before you renounced the position that your sponsors were trying to put you in, in California you had what I suppose I would describe as a revelation. What was revealed to you? I have read the story of when you saw a roadman.

Cumbria Tourism offers its sincere thanks to Eric for his long-standing service and contribution, along with the Board members also stepping down following their terms as valued Non-Executive Directors and observers: Kerry Powell, Mike Turner, Paul Armstrong and Liz Moss. Improvisation was at the heart of her methods. Knowing that anger and tension could sometimes be near to the surface, she kept an olive branch close at hand as a way for pupils to “make up” when the improvisation exercises were over. This came in handy, too, when she was brought in to lead “peace workshops” in Northern Ireland and Rwanda. Whoever she taught, she would draw on the words of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Anne Frank. Eric Roberson was born on 26 September, 1976 in Rahway, New Jersey, United States. Discover Eric Roberson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old? Popular As K: Yes, yes, yes. But you see the difficulty is, to go into it very seriously… I don’t know how to put it clearly to you. You know, there is a great tradition among the religious… serious religious people, perhaps not so much in the West, that you must go through various forms of self-purification. Not by starving, fasting and all that torturing the body, but a sense of inward cleansing, as it were, if we can so put it, a purification of a brain that is not self-centred, that is not concerned with personal progress, personal achievement and all that business. I think it was, and it still is, part of deep religious feeling that, not the abandonment of the world, but share very little of it, as much… as little as you can, because you have to live in this ugly world – not the beautiful nature but what man has made of it. I think that’s what happened, to put it very, very simply. It started with Wainwright.Eric Robson, who is one of the directors of the company, was Wainwright’s walking companion in the classic television series. Now, as you will see, we offer a wide range of outdoor DVDs and books along with other products which we know will appeal to our customers.

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It is one of the pillars of Radio 4. I feel honoured and excited. I’m most looking forward to visiting the gardens - and meeting Radio 4 listeners - in parts of the country that I might otherwise never have gone to. One of my jobs as host will be to make new listeners feel welcome. I’m a novice and won’t be shy about asking the panellists to spell things out if they get too technical.” The format and panel remained largely unchanged for many years. In 1994, production moved to outside company Taylor Made Broadcast; the complete panel was discarded by the BBC and moved to the new Classic FM station on a short-term contract to present Classic Gardening Forum, sponsored by The Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society. In 2009, the production of the show was taken over by the UK's largest independent radio production company Somethin' Else. The programme's audience figures continue to perform strongly as confirmed by the official audience measurement body, RAJAR. Based in the Wasdale Valley in the English Lake District, for twenty eight years Striding Edge Productions has been providing the very best hill walking programmes. Each year the programme visits a botanic garden to stage its annual GQT Summer Garden Party. The event includes seminars and talks given by the GQT panel, a chance to receive first hand advice from a panelist inside the GQT Potting Shed plus two programme recordings. A highlight of the horticultural calendar, the event attracts a large audience of keen amateur gardeners. Most recently the Summer Garden Party has been hosted by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, [8] National Botanic Garden of Wales [9] and Ness Botanic Gardens. [10]