The Big Allotment Challenge review: Maybe droopy sweet peas are to allotments what the soggy bottom is to baking

Edit The Guardian 16 Apr 2014
The most talented allotmenteers in the country' compete to grow the firmest radishes and sweetest cut flowers. But what is so great about uniformity?. • Six things we learned from The Big Allotment Challenge. The Big Allotment Challenge Shirley tends to her sweet peas. Photograph. BBC/Silver River. If the format works, keep on using it ... So here's The Big Allotment Challenge (BBC2) ... Hang on ... And Patrick Mower might be around, to present ... ....

How Babycham changed British drinking habits

Edit BBC News 23 Dec 2013
It's 60 years since the national launch of Babycham. The sparkling perry was one of the first alcoholic drinks marketed directly to women, and heralded a change in British drinking culture. A cinema ad from the early 1960s ... Raffish leading man (and future Emmerdale star) Patrick Mower is on his yacht somewhere in the Med, blonde companion on his arm, living the life of the international playboy. His drink? Babycham, of course ... ....
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