Synopsis
Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey explore how much we really know about the logistics that enable Britain to buy and sell millions of cars around the world on an unprecedented scale.
- Programme: What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day
- Episode: Cars
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2019
- Geography | Globalisation, trade and interdependence | Globalisation and global trade
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