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Road to Riches

on BBC Two England

Continuing the documentary series on the history of money. Never the Same Again. Tonight, Peter Jay draws parallels between today's consumer society and that of 18th-century Britain, discovering how consumption helped trigger the industrial revolution. He also travels across the Atlantic to see what impact the newly exploited lands of the Americas had on this stage of the development of the "road to riches". Producer Charles Bruce ; Series editor Barbara Want (S) (W)

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Peter Jay
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Charles Bruce

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