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Carol Klein has become a familiar face to gardening viewers. She has featured on (almost) every Gardeners’ World programme since 2005 and she has also presented two award-winning six-part series, ‘Grow Your Own Veg’ and ‘Life in a Cottage Garden’ as well as covering most of the RHS Flower Shows during this period. Over the last thirty three years she has built a garden at Glebe Cottage that has often been the subject of articles in the gardening press and the location for gardening programmes and over this time she has also run a plant nursery, exhibiting at more than 200 RHS Shows winning many gold medals, six of which were at The Chelsea Flower Show. Her stands and her aesthetic style have become synonymous with innovative, naturalistic gardening. She is a prolific author and has written numerous books including Grow Your Own Veg which sold more than a quarter of a million copies and was named ‘best-selling gardening book’ for two years running; she writes regularly in the gardening press and for national newspapers. Carol gardens organically, for her it’s all about having faith in nature and natural processes and enjoying the privilege of gardening.
Sally Laverack has been one of the team of interlocutors for the Bridport Literary Festival since 2011, and has a special interest in history. After working as a reporter/producer for the BBC in the North East for a number of years, Sally joined the commercial broadcasting regulator, the IBA/ITC. She retired to Dorset in 2000.