Thanks so much for listening to Grow Cook Eater Range. I'm sitting in the kitchen at Perch Hill

and the garden's looking particularly lovely at the moment and so I just wanted to do a kind of

NB to anyone who's within shouting distance of Perch Hill or not quite shouting distance but

travel distance which is we're open for the next few months a few days a

month and yeah it would be really lovely to see you so go on our website and you'll find all the

details of booking there you can book lunch on three different time slots or you can just come

and wander around the garden so it's garden only or garden visit plus lunch.

So I hope to see some of you then. Welcome to Grow Cook Eater Range,

the podcast of me, Sarah Raven. And today I am very excited, thrilled actually, to be joined by Patrick Grant. And I'm a big fan of Patrick. And many of you will know he is on the sewing bee, which to be honest is one of mine and my entire family's favorite programs.

I have grown-up children and I have a husband who's never seen a sewing machine in his life,

but I quite often come in of an evening if I've been working and I see him catching up on the

Sewing Bee on his own, which I think is rather hilarious because he loves

Esme and Patrick so much as a combination. And the different compers who've come and gone,

anyway, good morning and welcome, Patrick. It's such an honour to have you here.

Thank you very much indeed for having me. And thank you for being such a great fan of Sewing Bee.

Oh, we're delighted. We do get a very warm reception to the show pretty much universally, actually.

Yeah.

And I know that Esme is as delighted as I am by how well the show has gone down over the years and continues to go down.

New series coming very soon.

Good.

And another one recording in the autumn. So yeah,

it continues to be enjoyed by lots and lots of people, which is terrific. It is. It's just so clever

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