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Business Boomers

Episode 2: Real Storage Wars

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

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. Show less

Contributors

Narrator:
Sandi Toksvig
Executive Producer:
Eamon Hardy
Series Producer:
Ruth Shurman
Producer:
Will Yearsley
Director:
Will Yearsley

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