Mary Portas 6th most influential person in fashion. Portas' first book, "Windows – the Art of Retail Display", was published in five languages by Thames & Hudson. Her second book, "How to Shop with Mary, Queen of Shops", was published by BBC Books in 2007 to accompany the television series. The book was co-authored by Peter Cross, Josh Sims and Melanie Rickey. Her third book, "Mary Portas, Shop Girl, a memoir", was published by Doubleday in 2015. Since 2005, Mary has written a weekly column "Shop!", for the "Daily Telegraph" magazine, reviewing shops across the country. She started writing the column in
Heart of the Matter (TV series) on science and religion and included as guests David Starkey, Mary Warnock, Wentzel van Huyssteen, Richard Dawkins, Polish Roman Catholic priest and 2008 Templeton Prize winner cosmologist Prof. Michael Heller, and James Watson. "Heart of the Matter" was broadcast late on Sunday evenings, usually alternating with the similarly-themed "Everyman", though the latter tended to have more of a religious focus. Both programmes were cancelled in the 2000s following a revamp of BBC output. Heart of the Matter (TV series) Heart of the Matter is a British television debate series that aired on BBC One from 1979 to 2000. Presented variously