Raymond Blanc: The Lost Orchard
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Raymond Blanc has spent decades growing an orchard at Le Manoir. An orchard Raymond has planted with 2500 rare trees from in the hope of saving lost and endangered varieties. He explains to Dan Saladino why the orchard might end up being his greatest legacy, a story he has captured in his book, The Lost Orchard. He also selects five different apples that help tell his life story. Dr Joan Morgan, the world's leading pomologist, described as the 'Queen of Apples' helps to tell the stories of the varieties Raymond has chosen.
Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.
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| 0:57.0 | Look at his garden. |
| 0:58.0 | Look how beautiful. To me, every morning it's the first thing I do. |
| 1:02.0 | The first thing I do. |
| 1:03.0 | The first thing I do, whether it is 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, whatever, |
| 1:06.0 | and it's usually early, |
| 1:08.0 | is to walk with the garden, |
| 1:10.0 | and every smell is different according to spring summer out on winter |
| 1:14.9 | and of course soon that garden is going to collapse and you'll have all the musty |
| 1:19.3 | flavours you know the rotting things with slow decay and it's beautiful. |
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