Silent Sundays: should we swap our lawnmowers, leaf blowers and power tools for peace?

Think hedgerows not hedge rows … Alan Titchmarsh longs for the sound of silence. Photograph: ArtistGNDphotography/Getty Images

Name: Quiet Sundays.

Age: Ancient. Some say since the very beginning … as the passage from the King James, rather than the Phil Collins, version of Genesis puts it: “On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it …”