A series about – you guessed it – Britain’s Oldest Family businesses. This clip is the opening sequence of the opening episode, which is about RJ Balson and Sons of Bridport. The Balsons have been butchers in Bridport for 500 years. Can this be true? How did this family business survive so long? Is there another generation to carry it on? All these questions and more were answered in this film, which reveals Richard Balson’s journey of discovery back through the lives of his ancestors all the way to the time of Henry VIII.
60 minutes, a Raw production broadcast on BBC4
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