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1962: CHIP CRISIS hits SOUTH WALES | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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"The chip is the chip. It is life itself!" - Gwyn Thomas
Alan Whicker visits the South of Wales, where a culinary crisis of epic proportions has shaken society to its very core - fish and chip shops are running out of chips. Esteemed playwright and author Gwyn Thomas is on hand to wax lyrical about the importance of the chip to the collective Welsh psyche, and why Wales without chips is as unthinkable as Italy without pasta, China without rice, or France without wine.
This clip is from Tonight, originally broadcast 9th April, 1962.
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Alan Whicker visits the South of Wales, where a culinary crisis of epic proportions has shaken society to its very core - fish and chip shops are running out of chips. Esteemed playwright and author Gwyn Thomas is on hand to wax lyrical about the importance of the chip to the collective Welsh psyche, and why Wales without chips is as unthinkable as Italy without pasta, China without rice, or France without wine.
This clip is from Tonight, originally broadcast 9th April, 1962.
You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of tv to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic tv clips from the BBC vaults.
Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - www.youtube.com/c/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1