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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Could the next generation of lawn mowers create any image you like on your lawn?
The entrepreneur, Sam White, hosts Dough - the BBC Radio 4 series which looks at the business behind profitable everyday products and where the smart money might take them next.
In each episode, Sam, and the futurist, Tom Cheesewright, are joined by product manufacturers and industry experts whose inside knowledge gives a new appreciation for the everyday things that we often take for granted.
Together they look back on a product?s earliest (sometimes ridiculous!) iterations, discuss how a product has evolved and the trends which have driven its profitability.
In this episode on lawn mowers, they hear from expert guests including:
-Yvette Henshall-Bell - President of the European Business Unit at the lawn mower manufacturer, Husqvarna -Craig Hoare - Sales and Marketing Manager for the lawn mower manufacturers Hayter and its parent company Toro -Nick Darking - General Manager of the British Agricultural and Garden Machinery Association
They trade opinions on the lawn mower's 'game-changing' innovations and its most pointless, or least effective, ones too, before Tom draws on his expertise as a futurist to imagine what cutting the grass might be like in the decades to come.
Dough is produced by Jon Douglas and is a BBC Audio North production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
Sliced Bread returns for a new batch of investigations in the spring when Greg Foot will investigate more of the latest so-called wonder products to find out whether they really are the best thing since sliced bread.
In the meantime, Dough is available in the Sliced Bread feed on BBC Sounds
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0:40.9 | Hello and welcome to Doe, the show from BBC Radio 4 that looks at the business behind profitable everyday products and where the smart money might take them next. |
0:51.1 | I'm the entrepreneur, Sam White. |
0:53.0 | With me is the technology expert and futurist Tom |
0:56.0 | cheese right. Hiya Tom. Hello Sam. How are you doing? Rolling along as usual. |
1:01.5 | Very good. Tom's here to offer words of wisdom, especially on what the future of our chosen |
1:06.6 | product might be like. This time we're talking about a tool that's vital for keeping our gardens, |
1:12.1 | verges and open spaces trim. Yes, it's the lawn mower. Tom, I'm trying to picture the scene |
1:21.2 | in the Cheeswright household on a sunny afternoon in the spring. Are you buried away in your shed playing with the latest tech or are you |
1:29.7 | proudly mowing the lawn to get those perfect bowling green looks? Well, I'm sad to say I don't even |
1:36.8 | have a lawn. I'm a confirmed urbanite. I live in the city and I have a yard and it's just about |
1:43.6 | big enough for a table tennis table. |
1:45.5 | So if it is a sunny weekend in spring, |
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