Radio Times: Review by:; David Butcher

Tonight the man who built the world’s biggest sand sofa asks for investment. A business built on sand? I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t sound like the sort of proposition those red-blooded venture capitalists leap at. Over ten series, we’ve come to know how very touchy the Dragons are. They have a habit — particularly Deborah Meaden — of lecturing eager entrepreneurs who may not have fully thought through their ideas (or worse, their figures), as if they were feckless children, a sore disappointment to their parents. It’s as if a bad pitch is actually an insult.

Braving their browbeatings this week are a Welsh grandmother with a food website and a Tyneside couple with a novel hair-care brand for children.

About this programme

2/12. More aspiring entrepreneurs bid to win funding for their projects from Duncan Bannatyne, Hilary Devey, Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden and Theo Paphitis. A Welsh grandmother charms the Dragons as she tries to secure investment for her food website, the usual rules of the Den are disregarded during a pitch for a children's haircare brand, and an inventor hopes to impress the panel with the world's biggest sand sofa. Meanwhile, Peter tests an interactive game in a urinal, and Hilary reveals what her horse eats for breakfast. Presented by Evan Davis.