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Dudley
Season 10, Episode 7
Alan Titchmarsh and the team set to work transforming a deserving young family's inaccessible and uninspiring garden in Dudley in the West Midlands. The team decide to create a Mediterranean-style garden with a cool contemporary edge and bold design features, which captures the family's favourite holiday destination of Malta
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Gardening
Leisure Hobbies
Cast & Crew
Alan Titchmarsh
(Presenter)
Katie Rushworth
(Presenter)
David Domoney
(Presenter)
Frances Tophill
(Presenter)
Duncan Thompson
(Director)
Colin Lennox
(Series producer)
Juliet Rice
(Executive producer)
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Did You Know..
Alan Titchmarsh
(Presenter)
Born:
May 02, 1949
in
Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Best Known For:
Ground Force and various chat shows.
Early-life:
Alan Fred Titchmarsh was born in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, on May 2, 1949. His love of gardening began while helping his grandfather on his allotment. He left school at 15 with an O-level in art and worked as an apprentice gardener at Ilkley Parks Department while studying for a City & Guilds in horticulture. He then studied at Oaklands College, Hertfordshire, before gaining a diploma at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.
Career:
Titchmarsh moved into editing gardening books, writing and broadcasting, and had a stint as a host on Pebble Mill at One on BBC One in the 1990s. He joined Gardeners' World as the main host in 1996 and Ground Force began a year later. After writing a number of horticultural books, he turned to writing novels. His first one, Only Dad, was published in 2001. More novels, gardening books and three biographies followed. He's also hosted the Proms, various series for Radio 2 and Classic FM and Love Your Garden. Despite retiring from The Alan Titchmarsh Show in 2014, he kept busy with writing and presenting commitments. TV shows he has presented since include Britain's Best Back Gardens, Masterpiece with Alan Titchmarsh and Love Your Home.
Quote:
'I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it's everywhere these days.'
Trivia:
He was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List in 1999 and has an honorary DSc from the University of Bradford.
Katie Rushworth
(Presenter)
David Domoney
(Presenter)
Frances Tophill
(Presenter)
Duncan Thompson
(Director)
Colin Lennox
(Series producer)
Juliet Rice
(Executive producer)
