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Documentary series telling original stories about real lives in Britain today

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Market Day. Alan Dein explores the allure of designer bargain hunting in Bicester Village.

Alan Dein joins tourists on board the Shopping Express coach to Bicester Village to explore the massive global appeal of designer bargain hunting in rural Oxfordshire.

Alan Dein returns with the series which captures stories from modern Britain.

1 Market Day. The sleepy market town of Bicester is home to a smattering of small scale high street stores and a plethora of charity shops. Yet less than ten minutes' walk from the market square lies one of the UK's most successful designer outlet centres - Bicester Village - hosting some of the biggest global brands. Visitors flock from the Middle- and Far East to snap up a bargain. Alan Dein joins them on board the Shopping Express coach and follows them on their shopping odyssey - in order to explore the worldwide appeal of designer bargain hunting in rural Oxfordshire. 

Lives in a Landscape is Radio 4's award-winning documentary series, presented by Alan Dein, that tracks down people with stories to tell that reflect - in sometimes offbeat ways - the pleasure, the pain and the particularity of life in contemporary Britain. Also in this series - the villagers of a remote Cornish community take on a threat to their timeless idyllic home; the chapatti merchants of Bradford and... fighting it out in the City - inside the world of white-collar boxing.

Producer: Laurence Grissell.

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