Lives in a Landscape - Series 6 - Episode 1

Alan Dein returns with the series which captures stories from modern Britain. 1 Market Day. The sleepy market town of Bicester is home to a smattering of small scale high street stores and a plethora of charity shops. Yet less than ten minutes' walk from the market square lies one of the UK's most successful designer outlet centres - Bicester Village - hosting some of the biggest global brands. Visitors flock from the Middle- and Far East to snap up a bargain. Alan Dein joins them on board the Shopping Express coach and follows them on their shopping odyssey - in order to explore the worldwide appeal of designer bargain hunting in rural Oxfordshire. Lives in a Landscape is Radio 4's award-winning documentary series, presented by Alan Dein, that tracks down people with stories to tell that reflect - in sometimes offbeat ways - the pleasure, the pain and the particularity of life in contemporary Britain. Also in this series - the villagers of a remote Cornish community take on a threat to their timeless idyllic home; the chapatti merchants of Bradford and... fighting it out in the City - inside the world of white-collar boxing. Producer: Laurence Grissell.