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Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast from BBC Radio 4.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks,
book and luxury that they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
For rights reasons, the music's shorter than on the original broadcast,
but you can find a version with longer music tracks on BBC Sounds.
Listeners will also get access to episodes 28 days earlier than everyone else.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the gardener and broadcaster, Carol Klein.
As one of the regular presenters of the BBC's Gardener's World,
she's a familiar and respected expert on the pursuit she shares with an estimated 27 million people in the UK.
For many years, she ran her own nursery alongside her broadcasting career.
She's a six-time Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winner,
a certified RHS horticultural hero,
having been awarded the Society's Victoria Medal of Honour in 2018.
Her love of plants is, if you'll pardon the pun, rooted in her Lancashire childhood.
It all started with her mother's nasturtiums.
Then, just as she does in the garden,
she used a mix of skill and spontaneity to find her way thereafter.
She was an art teacher until she started a family and a garden of her own.