Retail guru Mary Portas takes on her biggest challenge yet, a hardware store that has seen profits plunge 60 per cent. Progress with the owner seems impossible. Show more

Retail guru Mary Portas is back to help the UK's independent retailers. She tackles a couple whose village shop in Dorset is losing almost 6000 pounds a month. Show more

Retail guru Mary Portas is back to help the UK's independent retailers. She meets three fiery sisters who are running a 115-year-old greengrocers shop into the ground. Show more

Retail guru Mary Portas is back to help the UK's independent retailers. She takes on struggling London bakery Maher and Sons but is not welcomed by matriarch Angela. Show more

Retail guru Mary Portas is back to help the UK's independent retailers. She battles to save a Kingston homeware shop living on borrowed time with its 1970s stock. Show more

Retail guru Mary Portas is back to help the UK's independent retailers. Mary is in Rochdale to take on an 80s hairdressing legend whose business is facing the chop. Show more

Six months after dragging the humble charity shop into the 21st century, Mary Portas is returning to add the last piece to the jigsaw. Show more

As the recession affects shopping, retail guru Mary Portas attempts to revive Tewkesbury town centre for The Money Programme. How can closures be prevented throughout Britain? Show more

Mary Portas attempts to transform the humble charity shop into a serious high street contender. She begins with one of Save the Children's worst performing shops, in Orpington. Show more

Mary Portas shares the tricks of the retail trade with failing boutiques. Mary attempts to reverse the fortunes of struggling Brighton unisex fashion store Ju-Ju. Show more

Comfort and Joy is run by divorcees Ruth Llewellyn and Anthony Wilson. It's too late to save their marriage, but Mary Portas thinks she can help rescue their shop. Show more

Retail guru Mary Portas is back to save the boutique. Blinkz is a shop for the fuller figured woman. But owner, Amanda Collins has a negative attitude to her clientele. Show more

Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. Libby Purves meets retail guru Mary Portas, opera singer Noah Stewart, glass artist Peter Layton and florist Rosemary Hughes. Show more

Mary Portas attempts to rescue failing fashion boutiques. In Doncaster she helps turn around Homeboy, a boutique trying to sell menswear and womenswear to the party crowd. Show more

Becky Eleazu's hip fashion boutique Rumplestiltskin has failed to attract the stylish locals she wants. Can Mary convince the South London locals to shop there? Show more

Mary Portas shares the tricks of the retail trade with failing businesses. Mary attempts to update the image of One One Seven, a dated boutique in Surrey. Show more

Retail guru Mary Portas aims to raise the status of charity shops. Mary teaches a class of volunteers how to increase their profits, but her new ideas are not well received. Show more

Retail guru Mary Portas aims to prove that charity shops can be heavyweights on the high street. Mary tries to convince celebrities to ditch their cutting-edge outfits. Show more

Jeanette Winterson talks to Jenni about her new book, Christmas Days. Food memories, relationships, and why ghosts are so often associated with this time of year. Show more

What does it mean to play Mary in the school nativity? Jeanette Winterson and Mary Portas. Agnes Obel performs. Asbestos in schools. Why do some women lie about their age? Show more