TV presenter and gardener Joe Swift will be touring the UK this Autumn from mid September, join him as he digs deep to reveal his fascinating journey from his Rock n Roll youth to becoming one of the country’s top Garden Designers. Hear what really happens behind the scenes at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Gardeners World and find out what it takes to get a Chelsea Show Gold Medal?
Joe will share all this with you and take questions on any part of his life and career but warns that answering questions on dead plants isn’t top of his list!’
Joe comes from a family or actors and writers his dad is Clive Swift who most famously played the brow-beaten husband in BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances while his mother is acclaimed novelist Margaret Drabble. And his late uncle, David Swift, was best known as the badly-behaved news anchor Henry Davenport in Channel 4’s classic 90s satire, Drop The Dead Donkey.
Joe’s TV credits include Gardeners World, RHS Flower shows at Chelsea, Hampton Court, Tatton Park and Malvern, Small Town Gardens and The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge amongst others. He writes a weekly column for the Times, monthly for Gardeners World magazine. He has appeared on Celebrity Masterchef and celebrity Bake Off, and although Paul Hollywood said his meringues were ‘superb’, failed to get past round one!
Joe performed in a rock band in the eighties and does still have the odd tinkle on his bass. Away from the cameras, Joe gets involved in community and school gardens, and is an ambassador for the National Gardens Scheme and patron of the Horniman Museum .
TOUR DATES:
Friday 16th September – Theatre Royal, Winchester – 01962 840440 / www.theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk
Tuesday 20th September – Mercury Theatre, Colchester – 01206 573948 / www.mercurytheatre.co.uk
Friday 23rd September – Number 8, Pershore – 01386 555488 / www.number8.org
Saturday 1st October – Hertford Theatre – 01992 531500 / www.hertfordtheatre.com
Monday 3rd October – The Apex, Bury St Edmunds – 01284 758000 / www.theapex.co.uk
Friday 7th October – Camberley Theatre – 01276 707600 / www.camberleytheatre.biz
Thursday 1st November – Little Theatre, Leicester – 0116 2551302 / www.thelittletheatre.net
Wednesday 2nd November – Harlequin, Redhill – 01737 276500 / www.harlequintheatre.co.uk
Monday 7 November – Exeter Corn Exchange – 01392 665938 / www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange
Wednesday 9th November – Clair Hall, Haywards Heath – 01444 455440 / www.clairhall.org
Thursday 17th November – Brewhouse, Taunton – 01823 283244 / www.thebrewhouse.net
Sunday 27th November – Blackheath Halls – 020 8463 0100 / www.blackheathhalls.com
For more information visit joeswift.co.uk
