Annie Gray The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker

The food and culture historian, and regular BBC Radio 4 Kitchen Cabinet panelist, takes us down the street and through the ages, from medieval marketplaces to the purpose-built concrete precincts of the twentieth century, and peeps through the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers. She’ll consider the importance of these thoroughfares as the heartbeat of towns, how we shopped and lived in days gone by - and what the future may bring.

Talking to Julia Wheeler