Episodes

  • 51: Bunny in the Garden with Unity Guinness

    51: Bunny in the Garden with Unity Guinness
    Dec 13 2024
    This week is the last episode in this series.

    The tables are turned and, Unity, Bunny’s daughter, as well as being the sound engineer, quizzes Bunny on her life, career and her garden.

    There is an accompanying YouTube video on Bunny’s YouTube channel ‘The Guinness Girls gossip about Life and Gardening‘ which illustrates various aspect of Bunny’s life they chat about. This will go up on or just before, Friday 20th December.

    Happy Christmas and we hope you have enjoyed this series.

    #family #guinness

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • 50: Claire Austin

    50: Claire Austin
    Dec 6 2024
    This week Bunny is in the garden with nursery women Claire Austin.

    Claire is the daughter of rose breeder David Austin (Senior) and worked with him following leaving Art College. Claire admits being more influenced by her mother, who also went to art college and was the gardener in their family. Although when Pat died, her father, David took it over and radically altered it.

    Claire set up her own nursery growing perennials, irises and peonies and admits to really not liking roses as garden plants.

    She has written several books and is now on the council of the Royal Horticultural Society.

    #davidaustin #royalhorticulturalsociety
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    37 mins
  • 49: Caryn Hibbert

    49: Caryn Hibbert
    Nov 29 2024
    Today Bunny is in the garden with of Caryn Hibbert, founder and director of Thyme and the Bertiolli Brand.

    Caryn started life as a medic, an obstetrician and gynaecologist whilst having and bringing up 3 children. Then in the early 2000 Caryn changed tack and started developing her own business.

    Hear about the problems of combining medicine and a family, her brilliant father’s invention and her amazing water meadows with their extraordinary bird and wild flower populations plus golden moles!

    See Caryn’s Garden in Bunny’s accompanying YouTube video ‘Caryn Hibbert in her Gloucestershire Garden’

    #takethyme #cotswolds
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    59 mins
  • 48: Roddy Llewellyn

    48: Roddy Llewellyn
    Nov 22 2024
    Today Bunny is in the Garden with Sir Roderick Victor Llewelyn. Better known as Roddy.

    Roddy is a gardening journalist, author and garden designer. He had a weekly column in the Sunday Mail for 12 years.

    His father, the legendary Sir Harry Llewelyn, was the David Beckham of the day, an Olympic gold medallist in Show Jumping, and came second in the Grand National. His horse Foxhunter had a chain of cafes named after him.

    As a present Bunny gave Roddy a Hand Widger from KENT and Stowe Westland, which is brilliant for weeding in awkward crevices, such as between paving slabs.

    To see Roddy's garden, watch Bunny's latest YouTube video 'RODDY LLEWELYN in his Garden!'

    #roddyllewellyn #royalfamily
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    58 mins
  • 47: Lulu Guinness OBE

    47: Lulu Guinness OBE
    Nov 15 2024
    Today Bunny is in the garden with Lulu Guinness OBE. Lulu talks about her approach to design, how she loves creating original designs whether for handbags, interior design, gardens or clothing.

    Several of her iconic handbags are in the V and A museum. Before setting up her business, Lulu was a model (probably the smallest one then in the world) a backing singer in Valentine Guinness’s band, and she made corporate videos.

    Lulu and Bunny discuss what its like becoming a Guinness!

    #luluguinness #houseofguinness
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 46: David Haig

    46: David Haig
    Nov 8 2024
    Bunny is in the garden with David Haig MBE an extremely keen gardener though his famous face is familiar to many as Bernard in ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’, Jim Hacker in the film of ‘Yes Minister’ and has appeared in ‘Killing Eve’, and the Downton Abbey film too.

    He is also a celebrated playwright, he wrote ‘My Boy Jack’ where he not only penned the play but also played Rudyard Kipling with Daniel Radcliffe as his son.

    David loves the rain and understands a fair bit about our climate having written the drama ‘The Challenge’ about the meteorologist James Stagg, who helped changed the outcome of the war by predicting the weather for the proposed date of D Day.

    See David in his garden in Bunny’s YouTube video ‘David Haig in his Generous Garden talking about gardening, Acting and Playwriting’

    #davidhaig #actor
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    57 mins
  • 45: Carole Boyd

    45: Carole Boyd
    Nov 1 2024
    Carole Boyd has been in the Archers since the mid 80’s. Following her training at the City of Birmingham University she then won BBC’s Carlton Hobbs award which involved a 6 month contract with BBC Radio Drama Company. But she started acting age 3, when, whilst being bored in long cinema queues, she used to sing and dance to entertain the other queue members.

    Carole voices all the female voices on ‘Postman Pat’, fell in love with Laurence Olivier in her early teens, and looked after her husband for twenty years after he had a stroke which removed half his brain. Though remarkably Patrick retained his speech and sense of humour.

    Carole talks about techniques to manipulate your voice and use it to be as expressive as your face.

    Bunny first met Carole when they were on the same team for University Challenge, and she describes her favourite colourful plants which she likens to ‘NewBerry Fruit Jewels’ a jelly type of sweet.

    #thearchers #bunnyguinnesspodcast
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • 44: Melanie Reid MBE

    44: Melanie Reid MBE
    Oct 25 2024
    Today Bunny is chatting to Melanie Reid MBE, about her garden in Scotland.

    Melaine Reid is best known for her weekly ‘Spinal Column’ in The Times magazine, which discusses disability and her life as a tetraplegic, following a serious riding accident.

    Bunny and Melanie, chat about how she got into riding, the accident, dark humour in hospitals and aftercare. They talk about how gardening is good at reducing pain, and the positive effects the Horatio’s Gardens have had on spinal wards.

    For Melanies Bunny gives her 3 handmade wrought iron hares from Forge & Folie.

    https://www.etsy.com/listing/1648348342/add-a-unique-touch-to-your-garden-with

    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557270892108

    #disability #bunnyinthegardenwith
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    1 hr and 7 mins