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Series 6

Switch Off Something: Britain and the Three-Day Week

Duration: 39 minutes

on BBC Four

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Philip Glenister narrates a documentary about Britain and the Three-Day Week, which resulted from a confrontation between the unions and the government in the winter of 1973-74. Show more

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