A Good Read
A Good Read
BBC Radio 4
Patrick Grant and Mary-Ann Ochota
27 minutes Posted Apr 1, 2026 at 9:46 am.
0:00
27:40
Download MP3
Show notes

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