Pick of the day: Robert Peston Goes Shopping
9pm, BBC2
In this new three-part series the BBC’s business editor Robert Peston reveals how shopping in Britain was transformed over the 20th century.
This episode charts how shopping was transformed from a chore to be endured in the 1950s into our favourite pastime by the 1980s.
Peston also tells the story behind innovative retailers such as Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Chelsea Girl and Next, which revolutionised the way retail operated and encouraged us to fall in love with shopping.