Fred Bettesworth the gardener. Part 1
- Title
- Fred Bettesworth the gardener. Part 1
- Genre
- Biography; Serial
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1984
- Play audio
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- Duration
- 01:00:40
- Description
- Reading of first part (of 2) of the story of charismatic gardener Fred Bettesworth from 1892 to the turn of the century. Male reader not identified. Probably extracted from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer, by George Stuart (pseudonym George Bourne).
- Contributors
- George Bourne?
- Keywords
- Weather; Hospitals; Country life; Gardening; Radio book readings; Dogs; Victorian period; Dialects; Surrey; Biographies; Gardens; Communities; Gardeners; Rural communities; Colloquial language; Boer War (1899-1902); Fred Bettesworth; George Stuart
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LBC/IRN, "Fred Bettesworth the gardener. Part 1". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/1041a00211001 (Accessed 19 Apr 2025)