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Around the World in 80 Gardens

2008 · 1 season

A calm, unhurried tour of beautiful places, more soothing than thrilling, best enjoyed with full attention to the scenery and talk.

Created by
Mark Flowers, Oliver Clark
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Monty Don
Overview
Around the World in 80 Gardens was a television series of 10 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster Monty Don visited 80 of the world's most celebrated gardens. The series was filmed over a period of 18 months and was first broadcast on BBC Two at 9.00pm on successive Sundays from 27 January to 30 March 2008. A book based on the series was also published. The title of the series was a reference to Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days and is a spiritual successor to Dan Cruickshank's earlier television series, Around the World in 80 Treasures, first broadcast in 2005.

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Created by
Mark Flowers, Oliver Clark
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Monty Don
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    Genres
    documentary
    Created by
    Mark Flowers, Oliver Clark, Patty Kraus, Andy Francis
    Written by
    Monty Don
    Starring
    Monty Don
    Length
    1 seasons, 10 episodes, 60 min each
    Network
    BBC Two
    Country
    United Kingdom
    Languages
    English, German, Spanish

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