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You and Yours: Gap Finders - Roger Saul

Gap Finders - Roger Saul

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Gap Finders - Roger Saul

Mulberry founder turned spelt farmer Roger Saul.

Mulberry founder turned spelt farmer Roger Saul, talks to Shari Vahl about how we went from fashion to farming in this edition of Gap Finders from the You and Yours team.

Roger Saul founded Mulberry with the £500 he got for his 21st Birthday in 1971. He spotted a gap for a luxury British accessories brand and over three decades, grew it into a global success. But in 2003 he was ousted from his own company in a takeover which left him devastated. 

Not knowing what to do next, when the farm next to his home in Somerset went up for sale, he bought it and threw himself into farming. He spotted a gap in the market for the ancient grain of Spelt and his farm, Sharpham Park, is a key producer of organic Spelt based products, selling in supermarkets such as Waitrose and Sainsburys.

Now in his early seventies, and showing no signs of slowing down, Roger Saul talks to Shari Vahl about his career, from fashion to farming in this edition of Gap Finders. 

PRESENTER: SHARI VAHL
PRODUCER: CATHERINE EARLAM

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