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12th October 2008

More TV with Grand Designs favourite

08.05.08 Anna Richardson

Channel 4 is set to broadcast a series of programmes featuring Ben Law, the sustainable woodland management and permaculture expert who appeared on the channel’s “Grand Designs” programme in 2003. Law appeared in the third season of the show when he built his unique home in woodlands in West Sussex, in what was the most-watched episode of the series.

Law’s new book The Woodland Year, which is published in September by Permanent Publications, provides the inspiration for a new four-part Channel 4’s series, currently being filmed over the course of a year. The book is a journey through the seasons in Law’s and other UK woodlands. It is a celebration of nature, artisan woodland crafts and foraging for food, and features traditional woodland recipes. It includes colour photographs and will be printed on FSC-certified paper.

In addition, Channel 4 will film Law during one of his Open Days, which give visitors a chance to explore his woodlands and Woodland House, for a one-off programme to be broadcast towards the end of May.

Law currently features on “Grand Designs Live”, broadcast every day this week, and is one of the front runners for the viewers’ vote for greatest Grand Design of the past, which will be announced at the live show today (9th May).

Permanent Publications, which publishes Law’s books, is expecting a sales boost for The Woodland House, thanks to this week’s exposure, and according to Tony Rollinson of Permanent, Law’s success “is a stunning example of how sustainable living is now very firmly part of the mainstream”. 

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