4.4 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
At a time when shops are closing across the country, we visit three food retail businesses that are bucking the trend. Levenshulme Market in Greater Manchester, A Small Good Thing in Bolton and Squash in Liverpool are all making a positive impact in their communities Sheila Dillon meets entrepreneur John Timpson to find out what this could tell us about the future of our high streets.
Presenter: Sheila Dillon Producer: Siobhan Maguire
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the |
| 0:03.8 | podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC. |
| 0:08.6 | It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world. |
| 0:15.3 | What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism |
| 0:19.8 | and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines. |
| 0:23.7 | And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject |
| 0:28.4 | you might not even have thought you were interested in. |
| 0:30.2 | Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment, |
| 0:36.1 | you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.7 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:45.0 | What's that? |
| 0:48.0 | What is a small good thing? |
| 0:50.0 | In a nutshell, I guess it's a greengrocer's with a community focus, I think, with an emphasis on low waste and sustainability. |
| 0:58.0 | So we've got some broccoli and squash, celery, leeks, mushrooms, cauliflower, |
| 1:02.8 | on this street, like people remember, |
| 1:04.9 | there always used to be a greengrocer. |
| 1:06.7 | Say this loose salad is fantastic that comes from a small... |
| 1:10.6 | I'd like to introduce you to two women. |
| 1:13.0 | So I'm Lisa, I'm Emily. |
| 1:15.0 | We have a small good thing. |
| 1:18.0 | What we had was sort of a feeling in our gut about something that our community would want and gave it a crack didn't we with a bit of money that we had. |
| 1:28.0 | It's been 15 months since they opened their little greengrocers on a residential street in Bolton in Lancashire. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.