Patrick Grant (Part One)

Walking The Dog with Emily Dean

Goalhanger

Comedy, Kids & Family, Pets & Animals, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, Emily and Raymond are taking a walk in Battersea Park with the brilliant Patrick Grant! Patrick is well-loved for his role as a judge on The Great British Sewing Bee. He’s also a designer, entrepreneur, owner of Community Clothing - a sustainable fashion label.

Although Patrick doesn’t currently have a dog, he has a wealth of dog experience from his idyllic childhood in Edinburgh - which sounds like it was a scene straight out of The Wind In The Willows. He explains the origins of his lifelong interest in clothes and we discuss the subtleties of being well-dressed.

Patrick’s book LESS - Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer Better Things Can Make Us Happier is available now!

Keep up with Patrick on Instagram @patrickgrantism

Catch up with The Great British Sewing Bee on BBC iPlayer

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Instagram - @emilyrebeccadean

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Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence

Music: Rich Jarman

Artwork: Alice Ludlam

Photography: Karla Gowlett

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0:00.0	Meg was the greediest dog I think you've ever met.
0:03.0	She once ate a whole giant bar of Borneville.
0:06.0	That disappeared.
0:07.0	It was wrapped up under the Christmas tree.
0:09.0	People say dogs can't eat chocolate.
0:11.0	Well, Meg proved them wrong on that one.
0:15.0	This week on Walking the Dog, Raymond and I took a southwest London stroll with fashion designer, clothing
0:21.2	entrepreneur, and long-running judge on the BBC's Great British
0:24.6	sewing bee, Patrick Grant. Patrick and Ray got along famously, partly because
0:31.0	Patrick grew up surrounded by dogs, but also because, let's face it, they both share a bit of old-school gente energy.
0:38.5	Patrick and I had the loveliest walk, chatting about his passion for clothes and tailoring which all
0:45.4	started at a very young age and led him all away to the heights of Savl Row but he's
0:51.4	also someone who genuinely forces you to rethink your whole approach
0:56.2	to fashion because he's written an incredibly powerful new book called Less, Stop Buying
1:02.4	so much rubbish,
1:03.6	how having fewer, better things can make us happier.
1:07.0	And it's one of those slightly life-changing books
1:10.7	that really inspires you to look at your own actions as a consumer and by
1:16.0	the end of it you really want to join Patrick in doing the right thing for all of us
1:20.9	but he explains it all much better than me so I think it's time
1:25.6	I stopped talking now and handed over to the great man himself here's Patrick and
1:31.1	Ray Ray Raymond are you going to say hello?
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