Real Storage Wars
A look at businesses that have boomed despite tough economic times. This episode discovers why Britain came to have the biggest self-storage industry in Europe.
The second documentary in the Business Boomers series discovers why Britain came to have the biggest self-storage industry in Europe, when just three decades ago the industry didn't even exist in this country.
This is the entertaining tale of canny entrepreneurs who grew rich selling empty space, of the garish multicoloured monster sheds that have sprung up around our towns and cities and - above all - of our national predilection for buying stuff and hoarding it. Self-storage has also provided a home for a multitude of small business start-ups as firms abandon the high street.
Featuring self-storage bosses, compulsive collectors and observers including Professor Danny Dorling.
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Self-storage clearout
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Narrator | Sandi Toksvig |
Executive Producer | Eamon Hardy |
Series Producer | Ruth Shurman |
Producer | Will Yearsley |
Director | Will Yearsley |
Broadcasts
- Mon 14 Apr 2014 21:00麻豆官网首页入口 Two except Scotland
- Mon 14 Apr 2014 23:20麻豆官网首页入口 Two Scotland
- Tue 15 Apr 2014 23:20麻豆官网首页入口 Two except Northern Ireland & Scotland
- Thu 15 May 2014 09:05
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