Grant Sonnex Explained
Grant Sonnex is a furniture designer and former BBC radio presenter.
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. 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]
External links
Radio programmes
Television programmes
Notes and References
- News: Grant's love for recording nature lives on in furniture . https://archive.today/20150120230819/http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Grant-s-love-recording-nature-lives-furniture/story-15847427-detail/story.html . dead . 20 January 2015 . Exeter Express and Echo . 18 April 2012 . 20 January 2015 .
- Web site: Radio 4 - A Life With Bears. 2009-02-08. BBC Online. 21 December 2011.
- Web site: BBC Radio 4 Programmes - A Life With ..., Series 4, Tundra. BBC Online. 21 December 2011.
- News: News Online's Science Editor grabs top award. BBC Online. 21 December 2011. 30 June 1999.
- News: Furniture maker unveils sideboard inspired by St Davids coastline . Western Telegraph . 23 November 2013 . 20 January 2015.
- News: St Davids furniture maker’s work hits the small screen . Western Telegraph . 22 January 2014 . 20 January 2015.