Lines of Work: Gardener Jackie Bennett on Francis Bacon

from The Essay · host BBC Radio 3

In Lines of Work prominent people in a particular job read and reflect on the writings of an illustrious forebear. In this essay the gardener Jackie Bennett responds to the ideas and principles laid out by the Elizabethan thinker Francis Bacon in his Essay 'Of Gardens'.Producer: James Cook.

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