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Radio 4,14 Aug 2023,53 mins

What went wrong at Wilko?

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Wilko is a fixture on many high streets and one of the UK's best-known - and most popular - department stores. Its descent into administration last week was met with an outpouring of grief on social media - but that won't be much consolation to more than 12,000 people whose jobs are now at risk. We'll look at where it all went wrong. Also - lots of single use plastic containers are soon going to be banned - but do takeaway owners, perhaps the sector most affected, even know what's coming? The 'lockdown generation' of students has been graduating this summer - we'll hear from some of them on what the last three years have been like. And what has July's washout done for the UK's staycation sector? PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON PRODUCER: TOM MOSELEY

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