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Mary Portas and Adrian Dunbar

Retail queen and broadcaster Mary Portas joins actor Adrian Dunbar, food writer Ella Risbridger and listener Mark Davies who discovered his uncle was a hoarder.

Queen of Shops Mary Portas has carved out a role as a retail fixer, style guru and successful broadcaster. She joins Richard and Nikki to discuss her extraordinary career and a new season of On Style, a four-part series on Radio 4 exploring what style means to us and the way we live today.

Actor Adrian Dunbar grew up in Northern Ireland and moved to London as a young man to train as an actor in London. His career has included appearances in films My Left Foot and The Crying Game and television programmes such as Cracker and Ashes to Ashes, but most famously, since 2012 Adrian has played Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty. He tells us about his recent trip around his homeland for Adrian Dunbar’s Coastal Ireland.

Ella Risbridger is the author of cookbook and memoir Midnight Chicken which chronicles how cooking helped her through an anxiety disorder, depression and bereavement. She shares her favourite recipes from the book and explains how she feels cooking saved her life.

When listener Mark Davies’ uncle died last year, he was shocked to discover that he was a secret hoarder. As Mark cleared his house, he found every nook and cranny filled with both mundane and extraordinary objects from apple pips to World War II medals.

And we have the Inheritance Tracks of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Producer: Laura Northedge
Editor: Eleanor Garland

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1 hour, 26 minutes

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Sat 30 Jan 2021 09:00

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  • Sat 30 Jan 2021 09:00

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