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
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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 Queen of Charity Shops
Episode 1
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland
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
Midweek
Noah Stewart, Mary Portas, Peter Layton, Rosemary Hughes
43 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
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 is back to save a fashion boutique. Mary attempts to bring the team at Burt's Men's Store in Chorlton up to speed on 20 years of men's fashion. Show more
Saturday Live
Edith Bowman
1 hour, 28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Presenters Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by Edith Bowman. With Inheritance Tracks from Mary Portas. Show more
Retail guru Mary Portas is back to save the fashion boutique. Mary encounters Floyds, a boutique and bar. The owner doesn't know why it's failing so Mary needs to find out. Show more
Mary Portas comes to the aid a ladies' boutique in York fighting for survival as the owner struggles to attract York's sophisticated forty-somethings over the threshold. Show more