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The Birth of Europe

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Small Cog - Big Machine Europeans have a taste for the exotic - for tea and diamonds and silks. It is the desire to obtain luxuries that has transformed Europe from a self-sufficient continent to a small cog in the world machine. In the final programme of the series, Peter France looks at how trade began back in the Ice Age and how it has changed through time, and asks: what is the real price of luxury?
Producer Mary Colwell

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Mary Colwell
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