Education
Maiden was brought up in Penrith, Cumbria, and was educated at Askham Bryan College.
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Maiden was brought up in Penrith, Cumbria, and was educated at Askham Bryan College.
Maiden"s work has been published in a number of audio visual presentations He was a Fellow of the National Vegetable Society, and served on the society"s judging panel. Alongside the long-standing British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Leeds presenter Tim Crowther, Maiden regularly presented to Sunday morning audiences to the station"s weekly peak audience. He died on 17 September 2015 of prostate cancer.
A professional horticulturist over a period spanning 40 years, he appeared on numerous gardening programmes for the British Broadcasting Corporation and Yorkshire Television and was awarded the Harlow Carr medal by The Royal Horticultural Society for his growing, lecturing and exhibitions of vegetables.
He was a committee member of the Leeds Horticultural Society.