Podcast appearances and mentions of frances lincoln

Juliet Sargeant is an award-winning English garden designer who blends beauty with purpose in every space she creates. Juliet's unique background in medicine, science, and psychology gives her designs a whole new depth, focusing on wellbeing and connection. You might recognize her name from that time in 2016 when she made history as the first Black Woman garden designer to display at the Chelsea Flower Show, and her design - Modern Slavery Garden, won a Gold Medal and the People's Choice Prize.  This Earth Day week, we're celebrating Juliet's design background and digging in to her new book “Start With Soil: Simple Steps for a Thriving Garden” which publishes on May 1st from Frances Lincoln. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.

This week: the Van Gogh blockbuster in London, a new book on the birth of Impressionism, and Juan Pablo Echeverri's performative self-portraits. As the exhibition Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers opens at the National Gallery in London as part of its bicentenary celebrations, The Art Newspaper's special correspondent and resident expert in the Dutch painter, Martin Bailey, takes a tour of the exhibition with our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, meanwhile, has just opened the exhibition Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment, its iteration of the show marking 150 years since the first Impressionist exhibition, which began earlier this year at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Coinciding with the show is the publication of the book Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, by the Washington Post art critic, Sebastian Smee. Ben Luke speaks to Sebastian about the book. And this episode's Work of the Week is MUTIlady (2003) by Juan Pablo Echeverri. The photographic piece features nine photographs in which the late Colombian artist pictures himself with an apparently flayed body and wildly different haircuts seemingly reflecting a multitude of identities. The work is part of the exhibition GROW IT, SHOW IT! A look at hair from Diane Arbus to TikTok, which opened this week at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. The show's curator, Miriam Bettin, tells Ben more about the artist and the work.Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, The National Gallery, London, 14 September-19 January 2025; The Sunflowers are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh's Masterpiece and Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the Artist's Rise to Fame by Martin Bailey, Frances Lincoln, each £10.99/$14.99 (pb), from 17 October, but available now at the National Gallery.Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism is published by W. W. Norton & Company in US and out now, priced $35. In the UK it's published by Oneworld, out on 17 October and priced £25; Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment, National Gallery of Art, Washington, until 19 January 2025.GROW IT, SHOW IT! A look at hair from Diane Arbus to TikTok, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, until 12 January 2025.Subscription offer: you can get the perfect start to the new academic year with 50% off a student subscription to The Art Newspaper—that's £28, or the equivalent in your currency, for one year. Visit theartnewspaper.com to find out more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome back to a brand-new season - we're back for a whopping sixth season of the podcast with new guests and brand-new stories and conversations and this time I'm using this as my chance to celebrate the amazing women of horticulture with a season I'm calling 'A Celebration of Women in Plants'! Gardener's World continually inspires and entertains us in equal measure, but I find myself hooked, in particular, to the segments that delve into the history of gardens and gardening over the years. Advolly Richmond is a historian who specialises in this exact area, and she can frequently be seen on Gardener's World, bringing us the past, present and future of gardening. Now, Advolly brings us a book that shares the history of plant names, their origins and so much more. In this episode we discuss the book and a great deal else too, enjoy! You can find out more from Advolly by following her on Instagram and Twitter. A Short History of Flowers is out now from Frances Lincoln and is available in all good bookshops.

Cet épisode vous est proposé gratuitement en partenariat avec ISpeakSpokeSpoken.com la plus grande communauté d'apprentissage de l'anglais en France sponsorise cet épisode. Recevez gratuitement votre challenge PDF pour vous (re)mettre à l'anglais en 4 semaines en suivant le lien créé pour vous : www.ispeakspokespoken.com/timeline Si aujourd'hui la pratique du tatouage s'est beaucoup répandue, elle existe dans les civilisations des quatre coins du globe depuis la nuit des temps. Marquer son corps à l'encre est un rituel millénaire qui revêt une pluralité de fonctions selon les cultures. Chez les Karens, une minorité ethnique du Myanmar, le tatouage permet de se protéger des tirs de fusils, tandis que chez les Maoris il marque le passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte. Dans la culture occidentale, le tatouage apparaît souvent comme un rite de deuil suite au décès d'un proche ou peut confirmer une appartenance à un groupe social, politique ou religieux. Au cours de cette série, nous vous proposons de découvrir les multiples fonctions et rituels rattachés à cette pratique et de plonger dans l'épiderme même de l'histoire. Écrit par Iona Bermon Bibliographie: Henk Shiffermacher, "Histoire et technique du tatouage." 1000 Tattoos. Taschen, 1996. Olivier Munden & Nick Schonberger. The Language of Tattoos. Frances Lincoln, 2022.

Cet épisode vous est proposé gratuitement en partenariat avec ISpeakSpokeSpoken.com la plus grande communauté d'apprentissage de l'anglais en France sponsorise cet épisode. Recevez gratuitement votre challenge PDF pour vous (re)mettre à l'anglais en 4 semaines en suivant le lien créé pour vous : www.ispeakspokespoken.com/timeline Si aujourd'hui la pratique du tatouage s'est beaucoup répandue, elle existe dans les civilisations des quatre coins du globe depuis la nuit des temps. Marquer son corps à l'encre est un rituel millénaire qui revêt une pluralité de fonctions selon les cultures. Chez les Karens, une minorité ethnique du Myanmar, le tatouage permet de se protéger des tirs de fusils, tandis que chez les Maoris il marque le passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte. Dans la culture occidentale, le tatouage apparaît souvent comme un rite de deuil suite au décès d'un proche ou peut confirmer une appartenance à un groupe social, politique ou religieux. Au cours de cette série, nous vous proposons de découvrir les multiples fonctions et rituels rattachés à cette pratique et de plonger dans l'épiderme même de l'histoire. Écrit par Iona Bermon Bibliographie: Henk Shiffermacher, "Histoire et technique du tatouage." 1000 Tattoos. Taschen, 1996. Olivier Munden & Nick Schonberger. The Language of Tattoos. Frances Lincoln, 2022.

Cet épisode vous est proposé gratuitement en partenariat avec ISpeakSpokeSpoken.com la plus grande communauté d'apprentissage de l'anglais en France sponsorise cet épisode. Recevez gratuitement votre challenge PDF pour vous (re)mettre à l'anglais en 4 semaines en suivant le lien créé pour vous : www.ispeakspokespoken.com/timeline Si aujourd'hui la pratique du tatouage s'est beaucoup répandue, elle existe dans les civilisations des quatre coins du globe depuis la nuit des temps. Marquer son corps à l'encre est un rituel millénaire qui revêt une pluralité de fonctions selon les cultures. Chez les Karens, une minorité ethnique du Myanmar, le tatouage permet de se protéger des tirs de fusils, tandis que chez les Maoris il marque le passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte. Dans la culture occidentale, le tatouage apparaît souvent comme un rite de deuil suite au décès d'un proche ou peut confirmer une appartenance à un groupe social, politique ou religieux. Au cours de cette série, nous vous proposons de découvrir les multiples fonctions et rituels rattachés à cette pratique et de plonger dans l'épiderme même de l'histoire. Écrit par Iona Bermon Bibliographie: Henk Shiffermacher, "Histoire et technique du tatouage." 1000 Tattoos. Taschen, 1996. Olivier Munden & Nick Schonberger. The Language of Tattoos. Frances Lincoln, 2022.

Si aujourd'hui la pratique du tatouage s'est beaucoup répandue, elle existe dans les civilisations des quatre coins du globe depuis la nuit des temps. Marquer son corps à l'encre est un rituel millénaire qui revêt une pluralité de fonctions selon les cultures. Chez les Karens, une minorité ethnique du Myanmar, le tatouage permet de se protéger des tirs de fusils, tandis que chez les Maoris il marque le passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte. Dans la culture occidentale, le tatouage apparaît souvent comme un rite de deuil suite au décès d'un proche ou peut confirmer une appartenance à un groupe social, politique ou religieux. Au cours de cette série, nous vous proposons de découvrir les multiples fonctions et rituels rattachés à cette pratique et de plonger dans l'épiderme même de l'histoire. Écrit par Iona Bermon Bibliographie: Henk Shiffermacher, "Histoire et technique du tatouage." 1000 Tattoos. Taschen, 1996. Olivier Munden & Nick Schonberger. The Language of Tattoos. Frances Lincoln, 2022.

Si aujourd'hui la pratique du tatouage s'est beaucoup répandue, elle existe dans les civilisations des quatre coins du globe depuis la nuit des temps. Marquer son corps à l'encre est un rituel millénaire qui revêt une pluralité de fonctions selon les cultures. Chez les Karens, une minorité ethnique du Myanmar, le tatouage permet de se protéger des tirs de fusils, tandis que chez les Maoris il marque le passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte. Dans la culture occidentale, le tatouage apparaît souvent comme un rite de deuil suite au décès d'un proche ou peut confirmer une appartenance à un groupe social, politique ou religieux. Au cours de cette série, nous vous proposons de découvrir les multiples fonctions et rituels rattachés à cette pratique et de plonger dans l'épiderme même de l'histoire. Écrit par Iona Bermon Bibliographie: Henk Shiffermacher, "Histoire et technique du tatouage." 1000 Tattoos. Taschen, 1996. Olivier Munden & Nick Schonberger. The Language of Tattoos. Frances Lincoln, 2022.

In this week's episode of the Mike the Gardener - Gardening Podcast, I chat with award-winning garden designer, Manoj Malde. We chat about his new book 'Your Outdoor Room' published by Frances Lincoln on 21 March 2024. We chat about: His childhood His career in the fashion industry The book and how it came about Manoj's Chelsea Flower Show Gardens His TV work, and lots more You can find out more about Manoj by clicking here and follow him on Instagram by clicking here You can follow me on my Instagram account by clicking here. Please don't forget to follow/subscribe and leave a review if you can. See you next week. Mike

In this episode, we take a trip back in time to the Victorian craze for fern collecting and how Fernmania was documented. Rare Book curator Renée Orr describes the work of Herbert Dobbie and Eric Craig who collected and documented ferns of Aotearoa in the last part of the nineteenth century. We are also joined by a contemporary print artist and book maker Makyla Curtis who shares her inspiration and print work using ferns. See a list of references for this episode below or get in touch with us by emailing libraryresearch@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz and we'll make sure you can find the collection items of your interest. This podcast is part of a wider series of short films Ngako: The Collections Talk, available to view via aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Ngako This episode was written and produced by Sue Berman, was recorded and produced by Benjamin Brooking and edited and engineered by Juliana Machado. This has been Ngako: The Collections Podcast - Fernmania Subscribe to check out the next episode! REFERENCES Herbert Dobbie, ‘New Zealand Ferns', Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1921. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/rarebooks/id/13930/rec/1 Herbert Dobbie, ‘145 varieties of New Zealand ferns.' Part 1.' 1880. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/rarebooks/id/13821/rec/2 Eric Craig, ‘New Zealand ferns: 172 varieties.' 1892. Fern Mounter Princes St, Auckland [Second Edition] https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/rarebooks/id/13845/rec/1 Sarah Whittingham, ‘Fern fever: the story of Pteridomania,' Frances Lincoln, London, 2012. https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=8957489a-a0e8-5e7e-a0f5-b9412cf0a349&entityType=FormatGroup Margaret Thomson, ‘The fern and flower album, for preserving dried specimens of ferns, flowers, seaweeds, &c.' 1878. https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=d8efed72-50e3-5154-8762-9061ecd73c4e&entityType=FormatGroup Makyla Curtis. ‘Artist file.' Available at Takapuna Angela Morton Collection. https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=4aea07c6-6b00-541c-8276-bba59c35170e&entityType=FormatGroup Makyla Curtis - Wordpress Blog https://makylacurtis.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/fern-printing/ Makyla Curtis, ‘Apertures.' 2021. https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=245b2567-90e7-54fa-bd6f-5b043e52641d&entityType=FormatGroup Makyla Curtis, ‘Advance/ Recede.' 2019. https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=03a8d70f-9cec-583b-8899-d4023d750ca7&entityType=FormatGroup Makyla Curtis, ‘Abstract compositions project '12.' 2011. https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=e450bb97-c267-5860-af7e-f2ac1132041e&entityType=FormatGroup ZINES: See a variety of multimedia publications here: https://makyla.wordpress.com/ Makyla Curtis, ‘Ngā makenu.' 2016. https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=43fc789f-475f-560d-8806-25126802affa&entityType=FormatGroup Makyla Curtis, ‘I titohia ē nei kōrero paki e ngā ngeru.' 2016. https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=d323e1d3-bc23-547b-b9dc-b1ff7de1ecd5&entityType=FormatGroup Makyla Curtis, ‘On rocks.' 2018. https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=6820a4ea-ff41-5e0c-83c5-a08c0790dafb&entityType=FormatGroup Image Credit: New Zealand ferns: 172 varieties Illustrated by Eric Craig, 1892, Fern Mounter Princes St, Auckland [Second Edition], pg: 27 https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/rarebooks/id/13845/rec/1

Mariajo Illustrajo is a Spanish designer, printmaker and illustrator living in the UK. After studying at the art school in Madrid, she moved to Bath, where she completed a degree in Graphic Communication.  Later she graduated from the Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University with an MA in Children's Book Illustration. In 2020 she was the overall winner of the World Illustration Awards.To date, Mariajo has produced two children's books: Flooded and Lost, published by Frances Lincoln. In this episode, she joined Nikki Gamble to talk about her journey to children's book illustration and how her picturebooks were conceived.Read  our review of Flooded on the Just Imagine website Purchase Flooded from our bookselling partner Best Books for Schools.Flooded is a funny and beautifully illustrated tale of animals living in a city that is slowly flooding. The flood comes gradually at first. All the animals ignore the obvious and go about their busy lives, disjointed from one another and preoccupied with their own problems.Eventually, the flood water reaches a height they can no longer ignore, and they must work together to save their city. All the animals join together in a line and pull out the plug drowning the city. This exceptionally illustrated story teaches a message not to let problems fester, and with a little teamwork and community spirit, no problem is insurmountable.About LostLost is the story of a polar bear who finds himself lost and alone in the big, cold city until a young girl takes him under her wing, showing him that there is love, friendship, and help to be found even in the loneliest of places...Support the showThank you for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, please support us by subscribing to our channel. And if you are interested in the books we have featured, purchasing from our online bookshop Bestbooksforschools.comIn the Reading Corner is presented by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. It is produced by Alison Hughes.Follow us on Youtube for more author events YouTube.com/@nikkigamble1For general news and updates, follow us on Twitter @imaginecentreFull details about the range of services we provide can be found on our website www.justimagine.co.uk

In this episode sponsored by Genus gardenwear Joff Elphick talks to Barbara Segall about her new book GARDENS of the SOUTH-EAST published by Frances Lincoln. Within its 144 pages are  20 gardens many of which often remain overlooked but all of which display the passion of the owners or gardeners that look after them. It's a fascinating talk with not just the gardens, but many names of people involved in horticulture scattered throughout the episode for one reason or another. Jane perrone, Alys Fowler, Peter Donegan, Rocky Coles, Marcus Harper, Fergus Garrett, Clive Boursnell,Beth Chatto, Christopher LLoyd, Tom Coward,William Robinson, John Brookes,  and Gertrude Jekyll all get a mention. The publisher says: A tour of some of the UK's most beguiling gardens in the counties of Kent, Sussex and Surrey, the counties that exemplify 'the garden of England'. In these three counties a wealth of history and horticulture has combined with geography in the shape of rolling landscapes, wooded valleys and meandering waterways, to provide an attractive and fascinating collection. They are in villages and towns, as well as in deep countryside, and all are privately owned. Some have been in the possession of the same family for many generations, while others have recently been transformed by new owners. Some open for the National Garden Scheme, while others are open privately and in some cases for just the occasional day for charity. The stunning gardens explored in this visually rich guide include: Arundel Castle, Denmans, Gravetye Manor, Munstead Wood and Sussex Prairie Garden. The book also includes a gazetteer of other important gardens in the area with location advice, to enable readers to plan a more elaborate tour of this fertile garden area. Filled with stunning, specially commissioned photographs by Clive Boursnell, Secret Gardens of the South East is a unique guide that opens the gates to the most intriguing gardens in this part of England.

Hello and welcome back to this weeks episode of the Mic the Gardener – Gardening Podcast sponsored by Natural Grower. If you're look for amazing results with all your fruit and vegetables, flower beds, lawns and house plants, then Natural Grower's award-winning, certified organic peat-free compost and fertiliser knock the socks of chemical products! All products are certified organic, 100% chemical free and 100% peat-free. And those lovely people and Natural Grower have given me an exclusive 10% discount off all products. Just pop MIC10 in the apply coupon field when you checkout. In this weeks episode I speak to garden writer Barbara Segall about her new book 'Secret Gardens of the South East' published by Frances Lincoln. In Kent, Sussex and Surrey, a wealth of history and horticulture has combined with geography in the shape of rolling landscapes, would it valleys and meandering waterways, to provide some of the most beguiling and interesting gardens in the United Kingdom. Barbara tells me all about her new book, how she writes and talks about her career, her friendship with the late Peter Seabrook and much more. You can find out more about Barbara by heading to her website or why not subscribe to her blog, The Garden Post. My thanks to Barbara for coming along to chat with me this week. Well folks, that's it for today thank you so much for joining me and Barbara. There are just a few more episodes to go before we reach the end of Series 4 so do make sure you follow and subscribe to make sure you don't miss out on any of the horticultural fun here on the Mic the Gardener - Gardening Podcast and I will see you, as always, next week Bye-bye for now, bye-bye

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In Anna Reser and Leila McNeill's book Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science (Frances Lincoln, 2021), you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture - showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Listeners might be interested in Lady Science Magazine and the Lady Science Podcast.  Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In Anna Reser and Leila McNeill's book Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science (Frances Lincoln, 2021), you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture - showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Listeners might be interested in Lady Science Magazine and the Lady Science Podcast.  Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In Anna Reser and Leila McNeill's book Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science (Frances Lincoln, 2021), you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture - showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Listeners might be interested in Lady Science Magazine and the Lady Science Podcast.  Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In Anna Reser and Leila McNeill's book Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science (Frances Lincoln, 2021), you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture - showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Listeners might be interested in Lady Science Magazine and the Lady Science Podcast.  Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In Anna Reser and Leila McNeill's book Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science (Frances Lincoln, 2021), you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture - showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Listeners might be interested in Lady Science Magazine and the Lady Science Podcast.  Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In Anna Reser and Leila McNeill's book Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science (Frances Lincoln, 2021), you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture - showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Listeners might be interested in Lady Science Magazine and the Lady Science Podcast.  Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In Anna Reser and Leila McNeill's book Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science (Frances Lincoln, 2021), you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture - showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Listeners might be interested in Lady Science Magazine and the Lady Science Podcast.  Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In Anna Reser and Leila McNeill's book Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science (Frances Lincoln, 2021), you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture - showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Listeners might be interested in Lady Science Magazine and the Lady Science Podcast.  Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode, Nikky's guest is Vic Lee, an award winning Artist, Author and Illustrator with a studio in Peckham, South East London. He has created bespoke artworks for some of the worlds biggest brands including Nike, JLR, Crabtree & Evelyn and The Famous Grouse. He also has a dedicated range of products commissioned by The Tate and has been an inspirational speaker at events around the world. From huge elaborate, typographic, storytelling murals, designed and hand penned, to fine, intricate print works, Vic fills spaces with mesmerising and engaging artistry. A former graphic designer, Vic now embraces traditional hand crafted design with his unique style of penmanship. In 2020, his work completely stopped due to the pandemic. Staying creative, he began illustrating and writing the Corona Diary. A personal journal of the first 6 months of the year with news stories he read about in the UK and around the world, all included within the book. The final diary was eventually, after 6 months, self published and self funded by Vic. Launching a signed artists edition through social media, the 2,500 copies sold out in 8 weeks. This book has gone on to win prestigious awards for Typography and Illustration and is now published as a mainstream edition by Frances Lincoln.

Today is International Women’s Day, and in this episode of the Science Focus Podcast, online assistant Sara Rigby talks to science historians Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, authors of Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science (£20, Frances Lincoln).They tell us about the women who engaged in science throughout history but don’t always get remembered – the midwives, the astronomers, and the wives and sisters.Read an edited excerpt from the interviewLet us know what you think of the episode with a review or a comment wherever you listen to your podcasts.Subscribe to the Science Focus Podcast on these services: Acast, iTunes, Stitcher, RSS, OvercastRead the full transcription of this episode [this will open in a new window]Listen to more episodes of the Science Focus Podcast:Why aren't there more women in science?Angela Saini: Inequality in scienceCaroline Criado Perez: Does data discriminate against women?Kathryn D. Sullivan: What is it really like to walk in space?Subhadra Das: What part has science played in racism?Kevin Fong: What happened to Apollo 13? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Best garden orientation for the sun Some plants like a warm place and enjoy sitting in the sun all day, while others prefer cool shade. The direction in which your garden faces affects the amount of sun and shade it receives. Consider this when choosing your plants to ensure they will thrive in the conditions you have to offer. For better results, check your plot first. Here are some tips that you should keep in mind. Patterns of sun and shade change throughout the day, and a garden in full sun at midday may have dark pools of shade by late afternoon, so spend some time watching your garden on a sunny day and making a note of the way shadows move around the plot. You can then plan what to plant where and identify areas for seating. Remember, too, that the patterns change depending on the season. To know how much sun the gardening place receives, you should experiment to track the shade. Here is the essential step to track shadows throughout the day are as follows Take a large piece of paper and outline the garden area, making key features such as trees and patios. Use different colored pen or pencils to mark the area in the shade at the last three times through the day (e.g., after breakfast, lunch, and dinner) The results will indicate which spaces get the most sun and which get the most shade. Remember, there will be more sun in summer and longer shadow in winter. Simple observation of how much sun your garden receives will give an idea of its orientation. The South-facing gardens receive the most sun and the North-facing gardens the least. The East-facing gardens are sunny but cold in the morning; hardy plants like shade are the right choice. And the west-facing gardens has sun in the afternoon and evening and offers milder growing condition. KEY POINTS To work it out accurately, use a compass. Stand with your back to your house wall – the reading from here shows the direction your garden faces. Those facing south will be in the sun all day and hot, while those pointing north will be in the shade most of the time. East-facing areas offer morning sun and evening shade, while the opposite applies to those facing west. Trees, hedges, and shrub borders act as buffers. They slow the wind and provide shelter for plants and people. A sunny spot can be enhanced with a raised bed to improve drainage for tender plants. (Allaway & Leendertz, 2010; DK, 2018; Farrell, 2020) References Allaway, Z., & Leendertz, L. (2010). How to grow practically everything. DK. DK. (2018). Royal Horticultural Society :how to garden when you're new to gardening. DK. Farrell, H. (2020). Get growing: A family guide to gardening indoors and out / Holly Farrell. Frances Lincoln. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/organicguru/message

S02 Episode 1: Nature all around. With Caro Langton     A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.        Garden soundtrack   Autumn is here   Nature all around us     Reading 03:40   To Autumn by John Keats     Read by Rose White, Richard Chivers and Rachel Coldbreath.     05:55 Nature Unnoticed   07:28 The pot of basil     Interview with Caro Langton 08:46   09:25  House of Plants   10:09 Where did the journey into plant obsession begin for Caro?   13:41 What’s going on in the plant:person equation?   The Moth Snowstorm: nature and joy by Michael McCarthy https://amzn.to/2m5XmOn   17:23 Plant tribes and communities   The Houseplant Festival at the London Garden Museum, 21 September 2019 https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/houseplant-festival/   21:04 Plant installations   23:42 What makes a garden?   26:15 A deep connection with plants in a short space of time.   31:34 What’s next in the RoCo story?     Huge thanks to Caro for making time to talk to me about her work and her life with plants. You can find out more about Caro and the work she does with Rose Ray as RoCo here: website: https://www.ro-co.uk instagram: http://instagram.com/studio.roco   House of Plants: living with succulents, air plants and cacti by Rose Ray and Caro Langton, published by Frances Lincoln 2016 https://amzn.to/2nxOtNP     Root, Nurture, Grow: the essential guide to propagating and sharing houseplants by Caro Langton and Rose Ray, published by Quadrille 2018 https://amzn.to/2ls8IvO   You can read my review of Root, Nurture, Grow here https://gardensweedsandwords.com/gwwblog/rootnurturegrow       The effect of plants in the workplace on productivity…   Nieuwenhuis, M., Knight, C., Postmes, T., & Haslam, S. A. (2014). The relative benefits of green versus lean office space: Three field experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20(3), 199-214. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-30837-001   Do plants increase workplace productivity? https://www.goget.com.au/blog/plants-in-the-office/         With thanks to all my listeners for your continued support and reviews, I really do appreciate them. You can support the podcast by buying its producer a virtual cup of coffee for three quid, at https://ko-fi.com/andrewtimothyOB. Proceeds will go towards equipment, software and the monthly podcast hosting fees.        website: gardensweedsandwords.com email: gardensweedsandwords@gmail.com Instagram: instagram.com/AndrewTimothyOB Twitter: twitter.com/AndrewTimothyOB 

The multi-talented Craig Pomranz joins me to talk about his book, Made By Raffi, and so much more! Inspired by a true-life incident, Made By Raffi is the story of a little boy who likes to knit and sew -- at first he is teased for his hobby, but in the end he becomes a hero to his class. Recently released in Chinese and Korean the Made by Raffi is now published in 8 languages and 11 countries so far by UK publishers Frances Lincoln. Award-winning artist Margaret Chamberlain is the illustrator. Craig wrote the book to support young boys and girls who are perceived as "different" because of their appearance or hobbies. It is a funny colorful book with a serious message and will interest those who care about promoting diversity and embracing our differences, as well as all children seeking to fit in. Additionally, composers Amanda McBroom (Bette Midler’s “The Rose”) and Michele Brourman (The Land Before Time) wrote a song “Different” which you can hear at the end of the episode. Continue reading Episode #210 – Craig Pomranz on the site.

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack   Preparing for the visit of gardening friends, with the help of    Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening by Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto, published by Frances Lincoln 1998 https://amzn.to/30WsVJ2   In Your Garden by Vita Sackville-West, published by Frances Lincoln, reissued 2004 https://amzn.to/2SKZven   I’m getting mightily bored of saying that things are out of print, but both of these are, which seems… daft. There’s a Kindle version of the Christo/Beth Chatto book, and second hand copies about. Used copies of the Vita book are crazy prices, so your local library may well be the best bet.     The affirmation that comes from reading a passage written by one of your gardening heroes who agrees with you…     … until they go and spoil it by banging on about a flower you can’t stand!     Alstroemerias, how I don’t like them, but you probably should. The wonderful work done by British flower grower Ben Cross as seen on his Instagram feed https://www.instagram.com/alstroemeriaben/     A trail for the next full episode, featuring writer and podcaster Lucy Lucraft, kicking off an occasional series where I’ll be talking to new gardeners about their experiences getting to grips with plants, garden centres and, let’s face it, other gardeners.  https://lucylucraft.com/         website: gardensweedsandwords.com email: gardensweedsandwords@gmail.com Instagram: instagram.com/AndrewTimothyOB Twitter: twitter.com/AndrewTimothyOB           

Craig is an internationally known singer/song-stylist, actor and author.   His first children’s book Made By Raffi is published in 8 languages and 11 countries to date by UK publishers Quarto and their imprint, Frances Lincoln. Made by Raffi can be found on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and all book retailer sites. Inspired by Made by Raffi composers Amanda McBroom (Bette Midler’s award-winning song “The Rose”) and Michele Brourman (The Land Before Time series) have written the song "Different".   You can find it on youtube and of course Craig’s youtube channel. His popular CDs “More Than A Seasonal Thing” and “My Heart Don’t Skip A Beat” are heard on radio stations around the world and available on iTunes, CDBaby and his website www.CraigPomranz.com.   Originally from St. Louis, MO Craig got his professional start at age 12 performing at The MUNY (the largest outdoor theater in the country).  Craig attended Carnegie-Mellon and The Goodman Theatre - The Art Institute of Chicago. Craig lives in New York City and travels the world performing in nightclubs and theatres.  Among his awards are New York’s MAC Award for Best Male Vocalist and the TOR Award for best actor in a musical venue. He is busy working on his next series of books hoping to empower children.  You can find out more on his website www.CraigPomranz.com Follow him on twitter @MadebyRaffi, Instagram #CraigPomranzHere and like Made by Raffi on Facebook. * You are invited to join our community and conversations about each episode on FaceBook at https://www.facebook.com/MutuallyAmazingPodcast and join us on Twitter @CenterRespect or visit our website at http://www.MutuallyAmazingPodcast.com** YOUR HOST: Mike Domitrz is the founder of The Center for Respect where he helps educational institutions, the US Military and businesses of all sizes create a culture of respect throughout their organizations. From addressing consent to helping corporations build a workplace free from fear (reducing sexual harassment and helping employees thrive by treating them with respect every day), Domitrz engages audiences by sharing skill sets they can implement into their lives immediately. As an author, trainer, keynote speaker and coach, Mike Domitrz loves working with leaders at all levels. Learn more at http://www.CenterForRespect.com

In this episode, I talk with critically acclaimed garden designer Cleve West about his journey to a vegan lifestyle and how this impacts upon his work.  We touch upon vegan gardening, cooking, farming for vegan and meat based diets and why we all need to think about the mark we leave on our gardens and the wider environment.    Further resources; www.clevewest.com Our Plot by Cleve West. Published in 2011 by Frances Lincoln https://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Plot-Cleve-West-2013-04-04/dp/B01K939IVO/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=X4JTJ0GQZVM0R9T860M9 Earthlings – a 2005 documentary http://www.nationearth.com Cowspiracy http://www.cowspiracy.com Forks Over Knives https://www.forksoverknives.com Land of Hope and Glory – Documentary https://www.landofhopeandglory.org Knepp Farm  https://knepp.co.uk Matthew Appleby – The Super Organic Gardener. Published 31st Jan 2019 by Pen and Sword. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Super-Organic-Gardener-Paperback/p/15572 Iain Tolhurst – Tolhurst Organic http://www.tolhurstorganic.co.uk https://www.amazon.co.uk/Growing-Green-Organic-Techniques-Sustainable/dp/0955222516 BOSH Cookbook https://www.bosh.tv/book/bosh-the-cookbook Dr Michael Greger https://nutritionfacts.org   Get in touch; Email podcast@rootsandall.co.uk  Website www.rootsandall.co.uk  Twitter @rootsandall Instagram rootsandallpod   Patreon Link; Help us keep the podcast free & independent! Donate as much or as little as you like at https://www.patreon.com/rootsandall 

Charlsea Dowding's latest book, Veg Journal - Expert No-Dig Advice, Month by Month  - published by Frances Lincoln, dropped on Peter Donegan's desk about 3 or 4 weeks ago, fresh off the printing press. A fellow member of the Garden Media Guild, on this weeks episode of the garden podcast Peter and Charles chat pretty much everything that is a cliché, a something you don't know why you garden that way but you do. We talk Charles latest book, his popularity, where it all began and of horticultural methods - how views and our knowledge of why we should do things a certain way have changed over the decades and the centuries, though not for everyone. The Sodshow is available every Friday in Spotify, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com   Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow Charles is a lead innovator of organic and especially no dig gardening, since 1983. In addition, he pioneers and publicises new methods of growing/picking/marketing salad leaves. He has created and cropped four no dig, organic market gardens, on stony, silt and clay soils. In the 1980s his garden covered 7.5 acres (3ha) of no dig beds and was less intensive than now. His growing methods are as applicable in small areas as in large ones. Currently he crops an intensive 0.25 acres/1000 square metres in Somerset, SW England, for local sales of salad leaves and vegetables. He has written nine books, runs a You Tube channel, writes for national gardening magazines, appears on BBC gardening programmes and gives talks/courses at home and abroad. web: charlesdowding.co.uk twitter: @charlesdowding YT: Charles Dowding

Broadcaster and author Dan Snow is the history guy - from first appearing on our screens with the 60th Anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein, with dad Peter to numerous other documentaries including the Rise of the Royal Navy, Battlefield Britain series and a documentary about his great great grandfather, former Prime Minister, Lloyd George. Alan Fell is Head of Props at the Royal Shakespeare Company - from severed heads to an armoured tank - creating weird stuff is part of the fun of his job. Louise Groves lost her parents and brother before she was sixteen and was placed in a foster family. She found the experience so positive, she became a foster parent herself and has fostered 48 children. Cookery writer Sumayya Usmani was a lawyer before following her true passion for food and is now an authority on Pakistani cuisine. She presents BBC Scotland's Kitchen Cafe. JP meets Saturday Live listener, Mike Farquhar, tells of a childhood event that he believes changed his life. Actor Josette Simon shares her Inheritance Tracks - Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles and You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me by Gladys Knight and the Pips. Mountain Berries and Desert Spice by Sumayya Usmani is published by Frances Lincoln. Josette Simon stars in Antony and Cleopatra at the Barbican in London until 20th January 2018. Dan Snow has recently launched new history channel, History Hit TV. Alan Fell is currently working on productions of The Duchess of Malfi, MacBeth, The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich and a First Encounters Schools project of Julius Caesar at the RSC, Stratford- upon Avon,.

Barbara Segall alongside good friend and genius photographer Marcus Harpur had been working on the 2017 just published book, Secret Gardens of East Anglia for about 10 years. Although Marcus did get to see a draft of the book, he never got to see it published and passed away August 6th 2017.  Together Peter Donegan and Barbara, sitting in Peter's kitchen talk about the 22 secret gardens of East Anglia, their owners and gardeners, the garden media guild, life as a garden writer, just what it means to drink Guinness, sing lines from Oklahoma as you walk through the front door and rolling around in the daisies when the grass grows just that little longer; and Marcus, to whom we dedicate this episode of The Sodshow.  My thanks to Liz and the team at Frances Lincoln for being wonderful, to Rocky Coles for waiting in the garden after a long walk to be sure we had finished chatting; and to you for listening and saying hi. The photo below was taken by Marcus' brother Nicholas Harpur.  The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and The Sodshow website. Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow Marcus Harper Marcus Harpur began his career in book publishing before joining his father, Jerry, to form Harpur Garden Images in 1992. Since then, he has been photographing and writing about gardens around the UK. A contributing photographer to numerous publications, his previous book with George Plumptre, The English Country Hosue Garden, was named Inspirational Book of the Year by the Garden Media Guild in 2014. His work appears regularly in magazines such as Country Life, The English Garden and House & Garden. Marcus saw the first copies of Secret Gardens of East Anglia, but died in early August 2017, a few weeks before its publication. Barbara Segall Barbara Segall is an award-winning author and garden writer living in a market town in Suffolk, with unrestricted access to the wonderful gardens of East Anglia. She edits two magazines, The Horticulturist, for the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and Herbs, for the Herb Society. She is also secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Herb Advisory Group. She is involved with the National Gardens Scheme in Suffolk as one of its Assistant County Organisers and is a Member of Perennial, the horticultural charity that helps horticulturists in need. web: www.thegardenpost.com Twitter: @gardenbarbara facebook: Barbara Segall Secret Gardens of East Anglia (ISBN 978-0711238596) is availble from the publishers Frances Lincoln (QuartoHomes  www.quarto.com),in most book shops, online at Amazon and various other book sites.

London is the theatre capital of the world. From world-famous musicals to West End shows, from cutting-edge plays to Shakespeare in its original staging, from outdoor performance to intimate fringe theatre, the range and quality is unsurpassed. Critic Michael Coveney and photographer Peter Dazeley will be joined by Mark Rylance and Rosemary Squire as they discuss some of the 46 theatres profiled in their new book London Theatres published by Frances Lincoln, with stories of the architecture, productions and personalities that have defined these buildings. Chaired by Rachel Tackley.

Griff Rhys Jones joins the Reverend Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir, to share tales about his long association with historic buildings, hosting quizzes in museums, his great Welsh adventures and dressing as a Dame. JP Devlin meets Paul Hendy and his family to find out about their passion for making bespoke pantomimes. Saturday Live listener Polly Wright describes finding a stash of letters between her grandmother and an Italian prisoner of war who worked on the family farm in Wales during WWII, and how she has used them to trace his family. Tracey Ford discusses the loss of her son, Andre, and the foundation she launched in his memory. The singer Beverley Knight talks about the influence of gospel and Memphis on her song writing, and her latest transition into Grizabella in CATS. And the Inheritance Tracks of Kellie Maloney. She chooses New York, New York by Frank Sinatra and Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed. Landmark - A History of Britain in 50 Buildings by Anna Keay and Caroline Stanford - Foreword by Griff Rhys Jones, is published by Frances Lincoln. CATS the musical is at The London Palladium. The Quizeum is on BBC Four on Mondays at 8.30pm. Frankly Kellie: Becoming a Woman in a Man's World is out now, published by Blink Produced by Louise Corley Edited by Karen Dalziel.

Libby Purves meets Sir Roy Strong; comic Marcus Brigstocke; horsewoman Venetia Williams and singer Polly Bolton at the Hay-on-Wye Festival. Venetia Williams is a horse trainer who specialises in National Hunt Racing. A keen and successful amateur jockey in her youth, Venetia achieved ten jump-racing wins between 1986 and 1988 during which time she also rode in the Grand National. In 1988 Venetia's race-riding career ended following a near-fatal fall in which she sustained a broken neck. Unable to ride, she progressed into the art of training. In 2009 she trained 100/1 shot Mon Mome to win the Grand National. Sir Roy Strong is an historian, lecturer, columnist and writer. He was director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 to 1973 and of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1974 to 1987. His new book Remaking A Garden - The Laskett Transformed is the story of how he remodelled his renowned garden as a tribute to his late wife. Remaking A Garden - The Laskett Transformed by Sir Roy Strong with photographs by Clive Boursnell is published by Frances Lincoln. Marcus Brigstocke is a comedian, actor and writer. Winner of the BBC's New Comedy Award in 1996, his new show Je M'accuse explores elements of his life. The show highlights his stints as a podium dancer and oil rig worker to his childhood eating disorder and love of musical theatre. Polly Bolton is a folk singer and song teacher. She began singing professionally in 1970 in an acoustic folk-rock band, Dando Shaft. She has recorded with singer Alan Stival and Show Of Hands. She runs singing workshops and leads community choirs and likes to experiment acoustically by singing outside - in gorges, on hillsides and by streams.

Libby Purves meets cloth merchants Philip Pittack and Martin White; cartoonist Annie Tempest; author Nicholas Shakespeare and singer and songwriter Dillie Keane. Cloth merchants Philip Pittack and Martin White have 120 years of experience in textiles between them and run Crescent Trading. They have been working together as woollen merchants for 25 years and are based in London's Spitalfields which used to be the centre of Britain's rag trade. Last September a fire destroyed their entire stock but they are back in business in a new warehouse which brims with tweed, worsteds and silks - all woven in Britain. Cartoonist Annie Tempest started writing her Tottering-By-Gently cartoons for Country Life magazine nearly 20 years ago. Her inspiration for Tottering Hall came from her family home, Broughton Hall in North Yorkshire. The characters including Dicky and Daffy, Lord and Lady Tottering, are based on family members - Lord Tottering is inspired by her father. Annie lived in the run-down Broughton Hall from the age of 12 and recalls the draughty hallways and idiosyncratic plumbing in her cartoons. Tottering-by-Gently: The First 20 Years is published by Frances Lincoln. Nicholas Shakespeare is an award-winning novelist and biographer. His acclaimed biography of Bruce Chatwin was published in 1999. His latest book is a personal one and tells the story of his aunt who lived in occupied France during the war. The book investigates how she survived the war and whether she really was the heroine of family myth. Priscilla - The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France is published by Random House. Dillie Keane is an actor and singer/songwriter. She founded the satirical cabaret trio Fascinating Aida in 1983. Now in their 30th year, Fascinating Aida are touring the country with their brand new show, Charm Offensive, which includes a long run at London's Southbank Centre.

Libby Purves meets actor Emma Thompson; record breaker Richard Noble OBE; singer-songwriter Linda Thompson and astronomer Dr Paul Abel.Emma Thompson is an actor and screenwriter. She won an Oscar for her role in Howard's End and as screenwriter for Sense and Sensibility. She grew up in a theatrical family - her father Eric Thompson was an actor, director and writer of The Magic Roundabout. In 2012 she wrote The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the publication of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Her follow-up book The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit is published by Frederick Warne.October 4th marks the 30th anniversary of Richard Noble's momentous drive in which he set the world land speed record. Driving Thrust 2, a British jet-propelled car, he reached 633.468 mph. In 1997 he led the team of Thrust SSC which holds the current record. His new project is Bloodhound SSC - a global education initiative which will attempt to break the land speed record again by reaching 1,000 mph in a jet and rocket-powered car.Linda Thompson is a British folk singer, whose new album, Won't Be Long Now, is her first since 2007. Following her divorce from guitarist Richard Thompson in 1982, she spent a decade away from the music scene after suffering from hysterical dysphonia, a form of stage fright. The Grammy-nominated songwriter began to record again in 2002. Won't Be Long Now features collaborations with her son Teddy and a duet with her former husband, Richard. Won't Be Long Now is released on Topic Records.Dr Paul Abel is an astronomer, mathematician and a co-presenter on the BBC's The Sky at Night. He was interested in astronomy from a young age, an enthusiasm fuelled by Sir Patrick Moore with whom he communicated from the age of 12. It was at Sir Patrick's request that Paul joined The Sky at Night team in 2009. His new book, the Stargazer's Notebook, is published by Frances Lincoln.Producer: Paula McGinley.

Libby Purves is joined by Wayne Bartholomew, Mary King, Roger Garfitt and Randle Siddeley Wayne Bartholomew is the general manager of the Lake District hotel The Damson Dene in Windermere which features in a 'fly on the wall' series on Channel 4 called The Hotel. Mary King is a singing coach, singer and conductor and Director of the Southbank Centre's VoiceLab. Mary will be training 750 singers who will be taking part in the Messiah Concert at the Chorus! Festival at the Southbank with the acclaimed orchestra/choir The Sixteen. Roger Garfitt is a poet who has written a memoir called The Horseman's Word which is published by Cape. Randle Siddeley is a landscape architect. He also holds the title The Lord Kenilworth. His book Garden draws on his long career, taking the reader through gardens he has created, both large and small, town and country, British and international. It is published by Frances Lincoln. Producer: Chris Paling.