Garden Walk Companion Podcast

NARRATOR: ‘A Sporting Tradition’ by Chiswick Residents competition winner Nigel Macarthur. MALE VOICE (in a comic fashion): Our spying is top secret, We will not give our names. Inside the boundary,... read more →

NARRATOR:  From 1946 until 1992 the Turnham Green Cricket Club played on the pitch at weekends. Celebrity cricket matches were a regular feature in the 1940s and 50s, in which... read more →

NARRATOR:  ‘An Audience of Oranges,’ a.k.a. ‘Critic’s Circle’ by Adult competition winner Katharine Kavanagh. Waiting in the wings the sweet triffids, potted critics, surround the scene, ready to pass judgement.... read more →

NARRATOR:  At the end of this path is one of the key features of Chiswick’s garden, a series of radiating avenues forms known as a patte d’oie, or ‘goosefoot.’ It... read more →

NARRATOR:  ‘Long Necked Visitors’ by Under 18s competition winner Lily Hewitt, aged 17. Herald:  And to welcome the Tsar of Russia to Chiswick Gardens, we have for the audience’s pleasure,... read more →

NARRATOR: The 6th Duke of Devonshire owned a large collection of exotic animals, among them an Indian bull, a Neapolitan pig, and a Peruvian llama. One of the star attractions... read more →

This poem, ‘HERACLES’, is by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. To look at him now, who would think he’d flayed a pelt of iron, bronze, stone from a lion, hacked... read more →

NARRATOR:  The gateway was designed by the celebrated architect Inigo Jones for Beaufort House in Chelsea in 1621. Lord Burlington admired Jones’s design and acquired the gateway in 1738 when... read more →

NARRATOR: ‘Parklife’ by Leah Kharibian, an audio script-writer and occasional film-maker who lives in Leicestershire. Ted  Musing to himself  Don’t know why they gave him a bike for his birthday... read more →

NARRATOR:  Chiswick was one of the first historic parks to be taken into public ownership for use by the nation. Today, the house and gardens are run by the Chiswick... read more →