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Around the World in 80 Gardens

Project Summary

Around the World in 80 Gardens Poster
Genre
Documentary
Featured Content
Culture, Design, Gardens, Plants, Temples
Islands
Bali
Regions
Gianyar
Narrator

Monty Don

Talent

Monty Don

Producers

Oliver Clark

Kerry Richardson

Sarah Moors

Richard Sinclair

Director

Oliver Clark

Camera Operators

Gerry Dawson

Other Crew

Avie Littler

Hilary Poole

Lyn Rae

Created By

Around the World in 80 Gardens Poster

FORMAT

TV Series

RELEASED

2007

EPISODE

S1E10

TITLE

South-east Asia

Overview

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.nnThe 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.

In This Episode

Since the nineteenth century, Western gardeners have harboured a stereotype image of the perfect exotic garden and Monty visits the pre-eminent of these - the mysterious Jim Thompson's Garden in Bangkok. He then pushes on to Singapore, 'a City in a Garden', before finally touching down in the lush and sensuous island of Bali, where what he learns about South-East Asian gardens surprises him.

Jungle Run Production Services

The UK's popular garden presenter, Monty Don, was enchanted by Bali's temples and sculpted landscapes, shot across seven locations.