Hello, I'm Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces.

You're listening to our podcast that explores the history and stories of our six palaces.

These talks are a collection of some of our best live events.

I really hope you enjoy listening.

The history of the English Garden reveals more than expected about the past and its people.

This series explores the theme of gardens as places of work, rest and leisure.

In this talk, historian John Phibbs delves into the work and world of the original landscape gardener

Capability Brown, from the agricultural revolution to his iconic landscapes.

But I feel I should begin with a kind of confession.

I've been travelling around the country quite a lot, talking about Brown because

this is his tersentenary, and just to make my allegiance is clear, I regard Brown as a

towering genius who should be ranked with Rembrandt, Beethoven, anyone else, not only for

the vast scale of what he did,

270 sites, minimum.

Averaging out, my own guess is something like

250,000 acres, which is a reasonable size county

that he landscaped.

Terrific global influence and a problem. Actually, just before I hit the problem,

I will just pick you up on this one little thing about Brexit, because I have been talking

to my children about it, who are probably about 20 years old, of them, Oliver, who's, the beard,

betrays your age. I think he's about seven, actually. And so I talked to them about it,

and funnily enough, they were very keen on Brexit. They said, why, what is the one country

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