 Hello and welcome to More Than a Shop, hosted by me, Elizabeth Hawker. We've invited guests with something new and radical to say about some of the most pressing issues of the day. The talk is lively, energetic, sometimes controversial, in the spirit of the worldwide co-operative movement, which happens to have started in my hometown of Rochdale. Co-ops proudly offer radical alternatives to mainstream ways of getting things done, so they are indeed so much more than a shop.