38. World Bee Day, Barbara Hepworth at the Hepworth Wakefield Gallery and 25 concert to celebrate London’s Wigmore Hall’s 120th birthday

We talk to Sarah Wyndham Lewis about bees, Simon Wallis, director of the Hepworth Wakefield  Gallery in West Yorkshire, and Wigmore Hall’s director John Gilhooly. To celebrate World Bee Day, Martin Miller’s Gin is offering listeners a 10% discount on all its ranges from 12th May till 31st October Code: Breakout Buy from https://www.masterofmalt.com Subscribe to our Newsletters Follow Country & Town House on Twitter Follow Country & Town House on Instagram We’re reading: Planting for Honeybees: The Grower’s Guide to Creating a Buzz by Sarah Wyndham Lewis We’re visiting: Barbara Hepworth:  Art & Life at The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery From 21st May till 27th February 2022 https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/barbara-hepworth-art-and-life/ The Yorkshire Sculpture Park https://ysp.org.uk Summer Concerts and the Learning Festival at London’s Wigmore Hall https://wigmore-hall.org.uk https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning/learning-festival-2021-connectivity We’re making: A Bee’s Knee’s Cocktail Ingredients 50ml Martin Miller’s SUMMERFUL Gin 25ml fresh lemon juice 20ml Bermondsey Street Bees Exmoor Honey Method Add the gin, lemon juice and honey to a shaker with some ice (if you don’t have a shaker, a jam jar or water bottle will do) Shake until chilled Strain into a cocktail glass Edited and Produced by Alex Graham

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