The High Street Shops we Loved & Lost

The High Street Shops we Loved & Lost (2024- )

RunningDocumentary show

The High Street Shops We Loved & Lost travels back to the high street of yesteryear to celebrate the favourite shop brands that we've loved and lost, from Woolworths to Wimpy, Top Shop to Tammy Girl, Blockbuster to BHS.s Eamonn Holmes, Anne Hegerty, Rufus Hound, Nick Hewer, Lesley Joseph and Penny Smith.

Network
Scheduleevery Thursday at 20:00 (60 min)

Last Episode

Episode 2
Season 1Episode 260 min

Episode 2

In the second show, we travel back to an era when booking a holiday meant a trip to the high street to visit Lunn Poly or Thomas Cook. We celebrate the new giants that revolutionised our shopping habits from Our Price and Toys R Us in the 80s to Athena and Phones 4u in the 90s.

Eamonn Holmes reveals that in the 70s he worked as a trainee manager in the ladies underwear department of Primark in Northern Ireland, Siân Pattenden gets very excited about back-to-school stationery, while Nick Hewer considers how catalogue shopping was a game changer for families where funds were scarce.

Bidisha Mamata revels in Victoria Wood's brilliant take on department store make-up demos. Anne Hegerty and Lesley Joseph bemoan the loss of Debenhams. Penny Smith recalls the threat that if you wore the wrong kind of shoes as a child you'd end up with ‘claws for feet'. Robert Elms spills the beans on his time as a less-than-helpful shop assistant.

And Mark Heyes sees reasons for optimism that the high street as we knew and loved it could still have a future.

Aug 1, 2024

Recent Episodes

EpisodeNameAirdate
S01E02Episode 2Aug 1, 2024
S01E01Episode 1Jul 25, 2024
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Cast

Hayley Tamaddon

Hayley Tamaddon

voices herself
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Narrator

voiced by Hayley Tamaddon
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Also known as

  • The High Street: Shops We Loved & Lost

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