Made in Britain

Evan Davis' new series: "Made in Britain" looks at the current state of UK industry.

There is a supporting page on the OPEN UNIVERSITY website.

There's a VISIBLE TRADE tool which allows users to explore 20 years of trade data: imports and exports can be explored, to get a sense for what we have been buying and selling to and from the rest of the world.
Here's a map, that I made in a few seconds, showing the Top 10 countries from which vegetables were imported into the UK for example. Spot those Kenyan beans ?:

Episode 1 is available on iPlayer


Who says we don't make anything any more? In the first of a three-part series on how Britain pays its way in the world, Evan Davis busts the myths that we were wrong to let so much of our manufacturing go abroad, and that we have become a nation of shopkeepers, bankers and estate agents.
As he flies in the world's most revolutionary jet and drives one of the world's fastest supercars, he discovers Britain still makes a lot it can be proud of. But post crash, he asks is it enough to meet the country's bills.

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