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