Dominance
Jenny Uglow explores how gardeners have always sought to dominate nature, from the Romans to the present day.
Kill! Kill! isn't a cry you normally hear in the garden ... so begins historian and biographer Jenny Uglow's essay on another dark side of the gardeners' nature - the desire to dominate.
This weakness has led gardeners to turn their potting sheds into places stuffed with toxic mixes and poisons for the killing of weeds and bugs AND for the force feeding of the plants we DO want to keep.
So it has been through history - from the Romans to the present day. Gardeners, says Jenny, are too fond of keeping their heads down in their own plots to recognise the wider implications of their actions.
Produced by Susan Marling
This is a Just Radio Ltd production for Radio 3.
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