Grant Sonnex

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Grant Sonnex
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  • Radio presenter/ producer
  • Furniture maker

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.[1] 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

References

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