A Good Read, A Good Read, Patrick Grant and Mary-Ann Ochota

A Good Read

A Good Read

Patrick Grant and Mary-Ann Ochota

30 March 2026

28 minutes

Available for over a year

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