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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½2 on Monday 16th September at 9pm.

You can catch the first two episodes on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ iplayer.

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8 minutes

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