Another blast from the past…

1982: The BOOM in PIRATE VIDEO | The Money Programme | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9pL9Kug9Ms - a 10 minute video from BBC Archive

The blurb: 'This is the film E.T. … it’s not even released in this country yet."

Luke Casey reports on the booming UK video industry. Despite British people being the most avid video watchers in the world, video distribution here is in chaos because of the huge increase in the number of outlets and the rise of video pirating. Luke speaks to retailers and video distributors about the state of affairs.

Brian Widlake introduces.

Clip taken from The Money Programme, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 17 October, 1982.'.