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Frugal Years

BBC Radio 4 Extra - On Your Bike, Frugal Years

How the bicycle thrived during wartime, leading to a golden age of cycling in the 1950s.

Martin Ellis investigates how the bicycle thrived during wartime rationing, leading to a golden age of cycling in the 1950s.

With petrol rationing during WW2 the bicycle came into its own again to be followed by a golden age of cycling in the 1950's as the nation emerges from the darkness of war 

Presenter: Martin Ellis

Producer: Simon Evans
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Martin Ellis presents a history of the bicycle

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