David Brinley Clay Jones,
OBE (6 November 1923 – 4 July 1996), known as Clay Jones, was a horticulturist and broadcaster best known as the Chairman of the
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
programme ''
Gardener's Question Time
''Gardeners' Question Time'' is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme in which amateur gardeners can put questions to a panel of experts.
History
The first programme was broadcast in the North and Northern Ireland Home Service of the BBC at 2 ...
''. At the age of 17, with a "rich baritone voice", he was invited to join the
D'Oyly Carte opera company
The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is a professional British light opera company that, from the 1870s until 1982, staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in Europe, North America and elsewhere. The ...
.
He came joint tenth with
Carol Klein
Carol Ann Klein (born 24 June 1945) is an English gardening expert, who also works as a television presenter and newspaper columnist.
Early life
Born in Walkden, Lancashire, in 1945, Klein attended Bolton School but left school when she was 15 ...
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poll for the nation's all-time favourite gardener.
He was appointed OBE in the