Monty Don: podcast appearances and interviews

Montagu Denis Wyatt Don, born George Montagu Don on July 8, 1955, is an English horticulturist, broadcaster, and author. He is best known as the lead presenter of the BBC television series Gardeners' World. Born in Germany and raised in England, Don studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he met his future wife. During the 1980s, he and his wife operated a successful costume jewellery business until the stock market crash of 1987 led to nearly complete bankruptcy. Don made his television debut in 1989 as a regular on This Morning, contributing a gardening segment that helped establish his career in broadcasting. Throughout the 1990s, he expanded his television work with his own shows for BBC and Channel 4 and began writing, publishing his first of more than 25 books in 1990. Between 1994 and 2006, Don contributed a weekly gardening column to The Observer. In 2003, he succeeded Alan Titchmarsh as the lead presenter of Gardeners' World, a role he held until 2008 when he took a break due to illness. He returned to the show and continued his work in garden broadcasting, including creating and producing several series, with his most recent being Monty Don’s Rhineland Gardens, aired in 2026.