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Chore to pastime: Robert Peston looks at why the British love to shop

Robert Peston charts how shopping in Britain was transformed from a chore to be endured in the 1950s into our favourite pastime by the 1980s.

The third and final part of Robert Peston Goes Shopping is on BBC2 on Monday 16th September at 9pm.

You can catch the first two episodes on the BBC iplayer.

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8 minutes

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