Around the World in 80 Gardens | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Starring | Monty Don |
No. of episodes | 10 |
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Producer(s) | BBC |
Running time | 10 × 1 hour |
Release | |
Original network | BBC Two |
Original release | 27 January – 30 March 2008 |
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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