Diarmuid Gavin
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389 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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For all to enjoy, yeah.
German Gavin, garden designer, horticulturist, Chelsea Gold Medal winner.
German Gavin, thank you very much.
Afternoon.
I was born in London.
My parents had moved over in 1959 as so many Irish had around that time before and after.
But when I was a month old in 1964, we moved back.
There was.
Well, we moved back briefly.
I don't know where we moved to first, but my first memories are living opposite the gates of the chocolate factory.
It was exactly that.
Because that would have been, I suppose, maybe that was 67 or something like that.
So it was the sirens going off, people going into work, walking into work, bicycling into work, and people walking out, flooding out.
So it was like...
Like an old-fashioned movie.
And we would wait at the garden wall and there was some guy who'd lean up, collecting his son from work.
He'd lean against our wall and he'd have bags of broken chocolate.
And it was quite remarkable.
And also, it had a greenhouse.
So all the Cadbury's factory... I've just visited the Cadbury's factory grounds in Bourneville in the UK because I did a...
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