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Radio 4,08 Nov 2017,15 mins

Available for 26 days

Penelope Lively considers gardening according to the dictates of fashion. Read by Stephanie Cole. Penelope uses the garden to break open the world for us, and examines how we might encourage our lives to bloom. Abridged by Siân Preece Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017.

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