Room Escape, Dig It! Chelsea Flower Show
With us this week was Heidi with RoomEscape Basel. The 'Escape Room' experience is taking Europe by storm and Basel is lucky enough to have its very own. Use your wits and work as a team to solve puzzles and challenges in under one hour, all while locked in a room...your escape is in your hands and skills. Rated the #1 leisure activity in the region on TripAdvisor and featured recently in EasyJet's Inflight magazine, be sure not to miss this cool and amazing experience for groups, teams and those just looking to have some fun. Make sure to visit our Competitions page to enter the drawing on next week's show for two vouchers to the RoomEscape experience! Listen to the interview with Heidi again here.
Hester Macdonald, contributing correspondent of the BlueBox team, garden designer and founder of the Swiss Gardening School, hosts our regular gardening segment, Dig It! This week in London is the opening of the Chelsea Flower Show, hosted by the Royal Horticultural Society and on the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea since 1913. Chelsea sets the tone for garden design as well as launching new plants and accessories. Jo Thompson is a talented young designer and was chosen to design the M&G garden, lead sponsors of the show. She told us all about her garden for Chelsea 2015. Listen to the segment again here.
P.S. Jo Thompson's garden for M and G at the Chelsea flower show received a silver-gilt medal from the jury!
This week's music theme was songs about London:
The Clash - London Calling
Madness - We Are London
Squeeze - Up The Junction
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Lily Allen - LDN
Adele - Hometown Glory
Saint Etienne - Mario's Cafe
Ralph McTell - Streets of London
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
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