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The Lottery Millionaire and The Spirit of Belfast - Our Lives

Peter Lavery

Andrew Cowan

Damien Rafferty

Alexandra Shannon

Diane Poole

Claire Little

Trevor Birney

Justin Binding

Graham Little

Our Lives: Series 7: The Lottery Millionaire and the Spirit of Belfast

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BBC One - Our Lives, Series 7, The Lottery Millionaire and the Spirit of Belfast

Lottery winner Peter Lavery races to convert the Titanic Pumphouse into a distillery.

Lottery winner Peter Lavery looks back on the day that changed his life and races to finish the ambitious conversion of the Titanic Pumphouse into a whiskey distillery.

A character study of Peter Lavery, a Belfast bus driver who won £10.2m on the lottery in 1996 and has several new business enterprises launching this year, including the first whiskey distillery in the city for 90 years.

The film follows the progress of Peter’s ambitious plans for a ‘floating’ distillery in the Titanic Pumphouse and the launch of a new tour boat on the River Lagan. We also look back at his lottery win, what happened to him after that, and how he coped with the turmoil of going from earning £200 a week to suddenly becoming one of Northern Ireland's richest people overnight.

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