Episode 10 The Ghost of Warley Place

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A wealthy horticulturalist with a passion for roses, Ellen Willmott(1858-1936) developed her family garden into a world-famous botanical centre and funded international expeditions to discover new plants. Today her garden, which you can see above on the left, has transformed into Warley Place Nature Reserve, shown on the right, which is a magical natural landscape well worth a visit. In place of Willmott’s 100 immaculately dressed gardeners, the reserve is maintained by Essex Wildlife Trust and their committed volunteers.

Our speakers include Dr Patricia Fara – Science Historian, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge; Elspeth Manders – composer and artist; Helen Jacobs – ecologist from Essex & Suffolk Water; Sandra Lawrence – Writer and Author; Ailsa Wildig – volunteer at Warley Place.

Music, sung by electric voice theatre singers includes:

“The Moon of Heaven” by Elspeth Manders for vocal quartet; text from ‘The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ commissioned by electric voice theatre Aug 2020

The Moon of Heaven is rising once again
How oft hereafter rising shall she look
Through this same garden after me – in vain

The series presenter is Frances M Lynch, Artistic Director of electric voice theatre. Part of electric voice theatre’s Essex 2020 Minerva Scientifica project “Echoes from Essex” in collaboration with Chelmsford Civic Theatre.