Season 6 Episode 1 - A W "Bill" Phillips
Economics In Ten
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The Life and Times of a Spy
Roshma: He decided he wanted to develop his academic expertise in electrical engineering. So he takes out sort of a correspondence course. From Australia, he decides eventually he's going to travel to Britain. But not like straightforward, they decide I'm going to go Britain via China and Russia. And he travels around some fairly sort of dangerous parts of the world. Eventually he arrives in London in the Christmas of 1937 with 10 shillings left. Roshma: How much would 10Shillings be in pounds? On that one now... No, just then. Oh, then. Now, two pounds is half a pound. Half a pound was 240 pounds and a pound - imperial
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