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Welcome to Groker Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven.

And today I've got a really exciting guest, Molly Marne, who lots of you will know.

She is famous for her block printing fabrics and designs. And I wanted Molly to come on,

partly because she lives quite near me in Sussex, but also actually there are various people

who I admire women who have set up businesses and run with it in a way, I suppose, like me.

And I love them for that. And I'm interested to hear about their background.

So, hello, Molly.

It's really lovely that you've joined me.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm thrilled.

Good.

Well, I would love to hear.

We would all love to hear a little bit or a lot,

whatever you want, about how you came to do what you do.

Did you go to art school? You know, all the kind of as much background as you can possibly

bear to tell us. Well, I'll dive in. We're saying, no, I didn't. I didn't go to art school.

I actually didn't even do art GCSE at school. I was sort of sent in a slightly more academic route. And I look back now,

I remember at the time feeling sort of mortified that I wasn't doing something creative. But I look

at my now and I wonder if that was actually how I've ended up here doing this now because I think

I always yearned for creativity and being creative. And so A levels or GCSEs aside and spending a lot of my time at

university and my friends' art departments, I had to sort of forge my own way creatively. And I think I also,

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