Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens head gardener and cemeteries manager Franzi Cheeseman (left) with Michael Portillo Memorial gardens in Bucks are set to feature in a popular BBC TV series. Presenter Michael Portillo’s visit to Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens, dubbed “Buckinghamshire’s hidden gem”, will be screened next week. The production team of Great British Railway Journeys visited the gardens while filming the 12th series, which focuses on Britain between the World Wars and the 1930s. It is when the Stoke Poges land was acquired by Sir Noel Mobbs, opening as a Garden of Remembrance. In the programme, Mr Portillo helps plant a yew tree in a newly designed part of the gardens – a reference to Thomas Gray’s poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, which was inspired by St Giles’ churchyard – which sits next door to the gardens.