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Jun 2024
58m 34s

Patrick Grant, Frank Gardner, Razan Also...

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

Fashion designer, entrepreneur and Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant has put his money where his seams are with his company Community Clothing and new book 'Less' urging us to stop buying so much rubbish and appreciate fewer, better things.

We’re taking cheesy to another level with Razan Alsous who came to the UK as a refugee from Syria having lost almost everything. She has since settled in Yorkshire and is now an award-winning maker of squeaky cheese.

And Frank Gardner, who twenty years ago was shot six times whilst reporting from Saudi Arabia, remarkably survived and is not only the BBC’s Security Correspondent, he’s also a bestselling novelist having released his latest book Invasion.

All that plus the Inheritance Tracks of The Booker Prize winning Jamaican novelist Marlon James.

Presenters: Nikki Bedi and Huw Stephens Producer: Ben Mitchell

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