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Radio Leicester's Down To Earth shoots up to 2,000
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The making of the 2,000th edition of Â鶹Éç Local Radio's longest-running programme – Â鶹Éç Radio Leicester's Down To Earth – is the culmination of events celebrating the landmark occasion..
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The special programme is recorded in Leicester's Guildhall on Tuesday 29 May.
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Many former presenters of the programme join other invited guests to take part in the horticultural extravaganza.
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The present team, including regular presenter Dave Andrews, offers green-fingered tips and advice on questions from the audience.
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Listeners will hear the ground-breaking programme when it airs on Â鶹Éç Radio Leicester on Sunday 3 June 2007 between 1 and 2pm.
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The seeds for Down To Earth were sown during the station's opening week in November 1967. It began with a 15-minute slot which, in the intervening years, flourished to its present format of an hour–long programme every Sunday.
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Down To Earth blends entertainment with information on all things horticultural as listeners' questions are discussed by a panel of gardening experts.
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To produce the weekly show, the Down To Earth team branches out to locations in and around Leicestershire where it welcomes questions from listeners. Once a month a live phone–in is broadcast from the studio at Radio Leicester.
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Dave Andrews is thrilled to be involved with the long–running programme and demonstrates the camaraderie he shares with his colleagues when he says: "It's been a real privilege working with these characters over the last few years.
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"They are the kind of team who really sum up the best traditions of the Â鶹Éç – they inform, they educate, but more to the point they also entertain."
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He continues: 'We've had some great times visiting the region's pubs, prisons, community centres, village halls, castles and hotels. Wherever there is an audience and some questions – our team can make a programme.
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"They've been very patient with me too – as a total non–gardener my window box has been the butt of their humour over the years," he adds.
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"However, I got my own back when I got them to do a whole hour's outside broadcast from that very window box! Here's to the next 40 years."
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Radio Leicester's Down To Earth gardening experts are: Derek Cox, John Smith, Josie Hutchinson, Ray Coombes, Mike Salotti and Ady Dayman
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Notes to Editors
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Dave Andrews and other members of the Down To Earth team are available for interview.
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