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Charles Dowding

Charles Dowding

Gardener and author

Aug 4, 2026

23:33
What drove you to go to Africa?
23:36
I mean, just to give the background to that, I have to say, my father died in 1988.
23:41
He was very late marrying.
23:42
He was 82 when I was like 28.
23:46
And that's when he died at that age.
23:48
And he left me some money.
23:52
I was finding the market garden in my late 20s actually quite a slog for not earning a huge amount.

14 MINS LATER

37:41
Yeah.

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