Gardening Stories: La Majorelle an iconic garden in Marakaecch
3 December 2025 - 8 minsJacques Majorelle grew up in the soft industrial light of Nancy in north eastern France, the son of Louis Majorelle, a celebrated Art Nouveau furniture designer.Young Jacques was supposed to follow a respectable path into architecture, but painting pulled more strongly. He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Nancy, then at the Académie Julian in Paris, and began to exhibit as a promising Orientalist painter. The world he painted, however, was not yet his own. Then, illness and chance carried him south, across the Mediterranean, to Morocco.
Diarmuid Gavin tells us about the La Majorelle, an iconic garden in Marakaecch.
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Actor and author Hugh Bonneville on his new book
Ahead of Pat Kenny's move to weekends at the beginning of March, we've delved into the archives to bring you some of the best pieces from his dozen-and-a-half years of mornings on Newstalk. Actor and Author Hugh Bonneville joined Pat on the show today to chat about his new book 'Playing Under The Piano'.
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