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*This programme contains attitudes of its time and offensive, including racist, language.*
In America there are now nearly ten million widows. They form a large and powerful section of society, many of them have plenty of money and plenty of life in them yet; and probably nowhere in the world is there quite such a concentration of widows as in Miami, Florida. Widows go there by the thousand, seeking to fill the time and the space left by the going of the man in their lives. What do they do with their money and their time? Just how merry is the merry, middle-class widow of America?
Trevor Philpott investigates.
This documentary was featured in the retrospective series Pick of the Philpott File, and features an introduction by Trevor Philpott, recorded in 1979.
Clip taken from The Philpott File, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 14 June, 1969.
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*This programme contains attitudes of its time and offensive, including racist, language.*
In America there are now nearly ten million widows. They form a large and powerful section of society, many of them have plenty of money and plenty of life in them yet; and probably nowhere in the world is there quite such a concentration of widows as in Miami, Florida. Widows go there by the thousand, seeking to fill the time and the space left by the going of the man in their lives. What do they do with their money and their time? Just how merry is the merry, middle-class widow of America?
Trevor Philpott investigates.
This documentary was featured in the retrospective series Pick of the Philpott File, and features an introduction by Trevor Philpott, recorded in 1979.
Clip taken from The Philpott File, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 14 June, 1969.
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