Grant Sonnex

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Grant Sonnex
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  • Radio presenter/ producer
  • Furniture maker

Grant Sonnex is a furniture designer and former BBC radio presenter.

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Background

Sonnex worked for 20 years as a wildlife radio producer with the BBC Natural History Unit, [1] he also presented documentary programmes on BBC Radio 4, [2] [3] several of which are available in RealAudio format from the BBC website.

In 1998 he received a Glaxo Wellcome ABSW Science Writers' Award for best contribution to a radio programme on a science subject. [4]

He left the BBC and retrained as a furniture designer, setting up a studio in Gloucestershire. [1] In 2013 he moved to St Davids, Pembrokeshire and is now designing and hand-making furniture in his workshop. [5] He makes tables and sideboards and, in January 2014, a table he had made unexpectedly appeared on an episode of the BBC's Sherlock . [6]

Radio programmes

Television programmes

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References

  1. 1 2 "Grant's love for recording nature lives on in furniture". Exeter Express and Echo. 18 April 2012. Archived from the original on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  2. "Radio 4 - A Life With Bears". BBC Online . 8 February 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
  3. "BBC Radio 4 Programmes - A Life With ..., Series 4, Tundra". BBC Online . Retrieved 21 December 2011.
  4. 1 2 "News Online's Science Editor grabs top award". BBC Online . 30 June 1999. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
  5. "Furniture maker unveils sideboard inspired by St Davids coastline". Western Telegraph. 23 November 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  6. "St Davids furniture maker's work hits the small screen". Western Telegraph. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2015.