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Big Fish, Small Ponds

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1/5 Whiteley Village and William Whiteley. In a series in which David McKie explores some of Britain's most evocative spots and their local heroes, he visits the model village of Whiteley, Surrey, that was built for deserving pensioners by the merchant William Whiteley. McKie tells the extraordinary story of both the village and its philanthropist. Producer Amanda Hargreaves

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William Whiteley.
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Amanda Hargreaves
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