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In Living Memory

Series 11

Episode 4: Sunday Trading

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Contemporary history series.

On the 28th August 1994, shops legally opened their doors on the Sabbath for the first time in over 40 years. Chris Ledgard asks if the greater freedom to shop came at too high a price: the loss of the Great British Sunday. Show less

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