Patrick Grant, designer and broadcaster

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Patrick Grant is a designer, clothing entrepreneur and a judge on the BBC TV programme The Great British Sewing Bee. Patrick was born in Edinburgh in 1972. His interest in clothes and in making things was evident from a very early age, along with a love of sport: his father was a rugby coach and trained Patrick and his friends. Some of his friends went on to represent Scotland and Patrick played for Scotland's under-19 team. He studied Material Science and Engineering at Leeds University and worked in industry for a decade. Then, after spotting an advertisement in a newspaper, he bought an ailing Savile Row tailoring company. It was almost an impulse buy, at great financial risk. After a shaky start, he turned the business around, and within five years he was named menswear designer of the year at the British Fashion Awards. Patrick went on to buy a factory in Blackburn, Cookson and Clegg. He is passionate about British manufacturing, and set up Community Clothing with the aim of making good quality affordable day wear. He has been a judge on The Great British Sewing Bee since the programme began in 2013. He divides his time between London, Blackburn and the Highlands. DISC ONE: Les Fleurs - Minnie Riperton DISC TWO: My Heart’s in the Highlands - Else Torp and Christopher Bowers-Broadbent DISC THREE: Do You Wanna Funk - Sylvester DISC FOUR: Big Time Sensuality, the Fluke Magimix - Björk DISC FIVE: Harry Patch (In Memory of) - Radiohead DISC SIX: Kill Dem - Jamie xx DISC SEVEN: Get Better - alt-J DISC EIGHT: I Saw - Young Fathers BOOK CHOICE: Green Woodwork: Working with Wood the Natural Way by Mike Abbott LUXURY ITEM: A complete set of woodworking tools CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Kill Dem - Jamie xx Presenter Lauren Laverne Producer Sarah Taylor

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0:20.7	If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes,
0:24.6	you're doing the wrong thing.
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0:35.8	Hello I'm Lauren Levern and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
0:39.8	Every week I ask my guest to choose the Eight Tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:48.0	And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:52.0	I hope you enjoy listening. My castaway this week is the fashion designer and entrepreneur Patrick Grant.
1:18.0	He's best known as the sharp-suited judge on the Great British Sewing Bee.
1:22.0	The hit show has celebrated and even
1:24.8	reinvigorated our national love of making and that must give him particular
1:29.6	satisfaction as a passion for craftsmanship and a determination to revive British manufacturing
1:35.2	have shaped his own story.
1:37.2	A childhood fascination with the way things work led to a degree in engineering, but then at
1:42.1	the age of 33 he made a bold change of direction.
1:45.6	He put every penny he could raise into buying a struggling Savile Row tailors.
1:49.9	He turned the business around and five years later was named Men's Wear Designer of the Year at the
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