Benjamin Woolley continues his three-part series on games in Games Britannia episode: Monopolies and Mergers.
Games Britannia Part Two: Monopolies and Mergers
Presented by Benjamin Woolley.
Duration: 59 minutes.
First broadcast on BBC4 in December 2009 as part of the Game On season.
In this episode, Woolley follows the political and social impact that board games used to have in Britain over the last 200 years. He focuses on a popular and well known game - Monopoly - which celebrated both wealth and avarice of The American Dream in the wake of The Great Depression. He continues to the development of board games through their post-war heyday, in which Cluedo, Scrabble and Monopoly forms a holy trinity of British family favorites that still continues to present day.
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