Gardeners’ World was delayed this week. Its Friday evening slot was filled by one of the programmes on the Duke of Edinburgh and Monty Don found himself talking to viewers last night instead.

A video Clip submitted by a viewer of the programme urged those who were cutting their grass to be as careful about slow worms as they would be about hedgehogs.

The clip recalled Philip Larkin’s sad poem The Mower.

The Mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had