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Gardeners' World

Gardeners' World is the BBC's longest-running gardening show. Today it regularly attracts millions of viewers on Friday nights. The first episode was filmed in 1968, presented by Ken Burras and came from Oxford Botanical Gardens.

In the 1970s it was filmed on TV cameras weighing half a tonne. The kit needed 36 people in five lorries to transport, lift and operate it.

Gardeners' World was produced by the BBC until 1991 when it was handed over to Catalyst TV. It returned to the BBC in 2003 to a new garden at Berryfields in the Midlands.

Organic

The organic movement grew in the late 1960s and early 1970s as public awareness of the dangers of pesticides grew, leading to the formation of strong support for food crops to be treated with naturally derived products as opposed to chemicals.

Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA) has become the main group associated with this organic movement