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- A wonderfully entertaining magic show which will amuse and surprise all audiences.
- Sarah Lancashire looks at the history of Wakes Week. In the cotton towns of Lancashire, all the mills in a given town used to close down for a week (a different week in each town) to allow the workers to take a summer holiday. Whole communities went on holiday together, usually to seaside resorts such as Blackpool or Llandudno. The practice died out with the closure of the cotton mills and with the increase in the number of people taking holidays abroad.
- Modern Britain from WWI to the 21st century, the empire gone, but ambition/pride of new scientific age stills make Great Britain one of the greatest powers and influences in the world.
- Today's destination is Britain's favourite seaside resort, Blackpool. We meet fearsome landladies, learn how Blackpool rock is made and visit the tower, beach, ballroom and illuminations.