Joe Maiden (1941 – 17 September 2015) was a

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, author and BBC Radio presenter based in Huby, Yorkshire, England.

Career

Maiden was brought up in Penrith, Cumbria, and was educated at

Askham Bryan College Askham Bryan College is a specialist land-based college based in Askham Bryan, York, England. It also has centres in Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Saltaire and Wakefield. It was built in 1936, but not opened until after World War II as the Yorksh ...

. A professional

over a period spanning 40 years, he appeared on numerous gardening programmes for the

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and Yorkshire Television and was awarded the Harlow Carr medal by The

Royal Horticultural Society The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity. The RHS promotes horticulture through its five gardens at Wisley (Surrey), Hyde Hall (Essex), Harlow Carr (Nort ...

for his growing, lecturing and exhibitions of vegetables. Maiden's work has been published in a number of audio visual presentations He was a Fellow of the

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, and served on the society's judging panel. He was a committee member of the Leeds Horticultural Society. Alongside the long-standing

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presenter Tim Crowther, Maiden regularly presented to Sunday morning audiences to the station's weekly peak audience. He died on 17 September 2015 of prostate cancer.

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