Can A ‘Repair Not Replace’ Culture Be Revived In Fashion? (Your Radical Questions with Josephine Philips)
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Tech entrepreneur and founder of tailoring and repair company SOJO Josephine Philips answers your questions on fast fashion, manufacturing and scaling the repair economy.
She also discusses how big retailers are beginning to invest in repairs, the craft of making a garment and why we need to invest more in manufacturing clothing in the UK.
GET IN TOUCH * WhatsApp: 0330 123 9480 * Email: radical@bbc.co.uk Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan are released every Thursday and you can also watch them on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002f1d0/radical-with-amol-rajan Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The Independent.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello and welcome to your radical questions. |
| 0:08.7 | This is our Monday bonus episode where I put your questions to one of our super radical guests. |
| 0:15.2 | This is your chance to engage very directly with them, connect with them, ask some questions, get real answers, |
| 0:19.5 | and be part of the wonderful process and journey of this very exciting podcast. Britain's most exciting podcast, |
| 0:25.5 | officially, according to me. I've just had a absolutely riveting conversation with the |
| 0:30.8 | magnificent entrepreneur, Josephine Phillips, about her mission to stop over consumption, about |
| 0:37.1 | reforming and, dare I say, repairing the fast fashion industry. |
| 0:41.5 | She's got a company called Sojo, and it does, Josephine. |
| 0:45.6 | We are modernising the clothing repair and tailoring industry. |
| 0:49.2 | I couldn't have said it better myself. |
| 0:51.1 | And it's pretty radical because it is taking this enormous juggernaut, |
| 0:54.9 | which is the global fashion industry and is fundamentally changing it in pretty radical ways. |
| 0:58.8 | And she is very kindly, despite having this business empire and moral mission, she's very kindly |
| 1:04.0 | given up a lot of her time and is sticking around to answer your questions. Are you ready |
| 1:08.2 | for some questions from our radical listeners? Yeah, it depends what they are. |
| 1:11.5 | Depends what they are. Well, actually, you don't get to choose it. But they, they came flooding in. |
| 1:15.8 | I mean, I put this thing out on social media saying, send us questions and they came in. |
| 1:19.5 | Our first question is from Julia in West Yorkshire. |
| 1:22.8 | Sojo has made steps in aligning repair with the apparel brand to a mass manufacturing to kind of |
| 1:30.7 | introduce the repair economy in a new way. But how does that vision scale and how does it kind of |
| 1:37.0 | scale outside of London? I think that there's a massive growth potential for training repairers around the UK and really |
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