Series 2 Episode 37 - Follies of Bath

Reference Number

1408/2/37

Level of Description

Item

Title

Series 2 Episode 37 - Follies of Bath

Creator(s) & Administrative History

Bathscape Landscape Partnership
Harmar, Pommy

Date

07/02/2025

Extent

Extent: 43 minutes

Description

Episode description:
"This month join us as we explore the follies of Bath.

They were the thing in the 18th and 19th centuries. If you had cash to splash, why not show it off in the guise of a temple, a tower or a castle?

Dr Amy Frost, Senior Curator, Bath Preservation Trust takes me up to the top of Beckford's Tower and talks about the man himself, William Beckford.

We enlist the help of the Editor of the Folly Fellowship Magazine Jonathan Holt to try and pin down exactly what a folly is.

Finally Fliss Swallow is Head Gardener of the National Trust's Prior Park Landscape Gardens and she shows us around the garden's follies.

Credits

Music: Audionautix

Produced by Pommy Harmar

Links

Beckford's Tower - www.beckfordstower.org.uk
Bath Preservation Trust - www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk
Prior Park Landscape Gardens, National Trust - www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/bath-bristol/prior-park-landscape-garden
Folly Fellowship - www.follies.org.uk
Map of follies - www.follies.org.uk/index.php/map
Bathscape - www.bathscape.co.uk"