Georgian gardens and historical fiction

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🗓️ 16 October 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Charlotte Hodgman heads to Hampton Court Palace to check out their restored Georgian kitchen garden in the company of garden keeper Vicki Cooke. Meanwhile bestselling historical novelist Wilbur Smith talks about his latest book Desert God. Plus we continue our First World War series with memories of November 1914 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.3	Their idea of pest control was very rudimentary, so one book was recommending to cure aphids on your peach tree,
0:47.3	you should inject the stems with mercury.
0:49.3	That was Vicki Cook discussing Georgian pest control.
0:53.3	There's really no history of that period.
0:56.6	So it gave me a free reign.
0:58.8	So when people say, oh, it wasn't like that, I say, were you a hacksaw?
1:03.0	Were you there?
1:03.7	And that was Wilbur Smith talking about his latest historical novel.
1:25.6	You're listening to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine.
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