Personal reflections on a day from the past, raising issues from history which have become issues of the present. Anita Roddick: 22 May 1877 This is the day James Smith opened the Bon Marche in Brixton - Britain's first purpose-built department store. For Anita Roddick , founder of the Body Shop, the opening of the Bon Marche store marks the death of the little community shop. Director Peter Hoare Producer John Triffitt