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Jenny Eclair, Jon Brown, Costa Book of the Year winner

Jenny Eclair on her new craftivism documentary, Gaming sitcom Dead Pixels and Costa Book of the Year winner.

Can you use craft to help make the world a better place, one stitch at a time? In her new BBC Four documentary, Craftivism: Making a Difference, writer, comedian and art lover Jenny Eclair meets people doing extraordinary things with knitting, cross-stitch, banners and felt to change hearts and minds. She tells us all about it.

Tom talks to Jon Brown, BAFTA award-winning show-runner and screenwriter about his gaming sitcom Dead Pixels which returns to E4 for a new series.

And we've an interview featuring the winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award, which has just been announced.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Julian May

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29 minutes

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Tue 26 Jan 202119:15
BBC Radio 4

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Craftivism - Making a Difference begins on BBC Four at 10 pm on 1 Feb

Main image: Jenny Éclair and Lauren O'Farrell in Crystal Palace Park 
Photo credit: BBC / Northern Town / Alastair Veryard Photography



Costa Book of the Year Prize Winner

Costa Book Awards 2020
The Costa Book of the Year award winner is Monique Roffey with The Mermaid of Black Conch

Jon Brown

Dead Pixels Series 2 begins on 26 January at 10 pm on E4

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