Mary Portas On 19 June 2009, in a ceremony at Galashiels, Heriot-Watt University awarded Portas a Doctorate of Letters in recognition of her career and her contribution to the advancement of marketing and brand communications within the retail sector In December 2009, Portas opened her first permanent 'Living & Giving Shop' in support of charity Save the Children. There are now 16 shops open across London and Edinburgh. She was also named as the charity's Global Retail Ambassador. In 2011, Portas moved from BBC to Channel 4. Her first series for the channel was "Mary Portas: Secret Shopper" which aired in January
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