Patrick Grant and Mary-Ann Ochota

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This time the community clothing entrepreneur and host of The Great British Sewing Bee Patrick Grant chooses his favourite book along with fellow guest anthropologist and broadcaster Mary-Ann Ochota.

The books are:

Parsnips Buttered by Joe Lycett The Flow by Amy Jane Beer Heatwave by Penelope Lively

Produced in Bristol by Maggie Ayre

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:07.2	Things just swirling around my head.
0:09.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:12.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:17.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:19.5	I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift, we'll hear more stories emerging
0:25.2	out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:28.8	They did know that I was different.
0:31.7	You had kids together.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.5	Then you met.
0:34.3	Then we met.
0:35.2	The Gift.
0:36.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:39.7	Hello, welcome.
0:41.0	And if you're pondering what to read next, stay with us.
0:44.5	With me today, our first, the clothing-officionado Patrick Grant,
0:48.5	best known on TV for the Great British Sewing Bee
0:50.9	and an outspoken advocate for radical change in the fashion industry.
0:55.1	Patrick's latest book, Less, is subtitled Stop Buying So Much Rubbish, Having Fewer Better Things Can Make Us Happier.
1:03.5	With Patrick is the broadcaster and author Marianna Hotta, a specialist in anthropology and archaeology.
1:10.6	Mary Ann's most recent book is Secret Britain, unearthing our mysterious past,
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