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Evan Davis looks at the explosive growth of Britain's services economy in the third and final part of the series. Modern Britain has undergone a remarkable change in recent years: shifting from man...ufacturing to services. But is this good or bad news? Even though eight out of ten of us work in the service sector, there is still a tendency to look down on it. Evan Davis travels to Dubai to explore how our service expertise has been successfully exported around the world and, back home, sees how British services make a fortune by attracting wealthy customers to the UK. Evan Davis shows how architects, communication specialists, universities and even estate agents together contribute billions of pounds to the economy. But can we entirely rely on services to help us pay our way in the world? And what have been the social consequences of our great services experiment?
Evan Davis looks at the explosive growth of Britain's services economy in the third and final part of the series. Modern Britain has undergone a remarkable change in recent years: shifting from man...ufacturing to services. But is this good or bad news? Even though eight out of ten of us work in the service sector, there is still a tendency to look down on it. Evan Davis travels to Dubai to explore how our service expertise has been successfully exported around the world and, back home, sees how British services make a fortune by attracting wealthy customers to the UK. Evan Davis shows how architects, communication specialists, universities and even estate agents together contribute billions of pounds to the economy. But can we entirely rely on services to help us pay our way in the world? And what have been the social consequences of our great services experiment?
| Series: | Made in Britain |
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| Episode | 3 |
| First transmission date: | 2011 |
| Published: | 2011 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:33 |
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| Producer: | Dan Hillman |
| Presenter: | Evan Davis |
| Contributor: | Evan Davis |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-made-britain?page=1 |
| Keyword(s): | Money Programme |
| Master spool number: | BOU050779 |
| Production number: | FKAW583L |
| Videofinder number: | 82111 |
| Available to public: | no |
