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BBC discovers Old Exeter’s Elizabethan Garden

Tea with the BBC

BBC Radio Devon Producer and Presenter, Mike Chequer, sits down to tea with Annie in a very special garden she is creating at the oldest freehouse in the world.


To read more about Annie’s Garden at the Old Exeter Inn please click here


You can listen to the interview here

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