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"Packet of ten for thirty pence - who wants the first lot?"

Nationwide's Lynn Lewis takes his car on the ferry to France, to find out how profitable it can be to import French candles into electricity-starved Britain during the 1972 miners' strike. He hopes to make £100 profit, by purchasing 1000 boxes of candles in Boulogne-sur-Mer and selling them in Petticoat Lane, London.


Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 15 February, 1972.





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