The corner shop revolution
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🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:46.2 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm Ellie Cawthorne. |
| 1:01.2 | On today's podcast, we have an interview with the BBC journalist Babita Sharma, |
| 1:04.3 | who's the author of a new book on The History of Corner Shops. |
| 1:08.7 | Drawing on her own experience, growing up above her parents' shop in Reading, |
| 1:11.9 | Babita's book reveals what Corner Shops can tell us about the experience of immigrants in post-war Britain. |
| 1:14.9 | Our editor, Rob Atar, met her in London to find out more. |
| 1:18.7 | The Corner Shop is clearly a British institution. |
| 1:21.8 | When did it first become associated with immigrant communities? |
| 1:24.9 | I think the first association began, probably around the late 1950s, early 1960s. |
| 1:32.8 | And it kind of set a trend really of the time of mass immigration into the UK. |
| 1:40.1 | And in particular, that was immigrants arriving from the West Indies, from the Southeast Asian continent, Asia, Indians, Pakistanis. |
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