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	"title": "1973: Why KING EDWARD I Hated METRES | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive",
	"description": "Satirist Willie Rushton rails against the Metrication Board, and - with a little help from King Edward I and a group of primary school children - mounts an impassioned defence of the British Imperial system.\r\n\r\nWith Britain now a member of the EEC, is this the end of \"honest British yards\", pounds, bushels and pecks, coombs, chaldrons... even puttles? What do the British public think of metrication?\r\n\r\nOriginally broadcast 20 July, 1973.\r\n\r\nYou 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.\r\n\r\nMake sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1",
	"channel_title": "BBC Archive",
	"channel_url": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCCwUTfKeDj4p9uTNrn9U6Sw",
	"upload_date": "2023-01-09",
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