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Sunday Feature: The Heritage Wars

Series 1, episode 0

Historian Dr Anna Whitelock explores the UK's love affair with its past and examines how the heritage industry is battling for our money. With four million members, The National Trust is more popular than ever and English Heritage has recently seen its membership boom. Anna talks to the leading figures in the heritage industry: Simon Jenkins, chairman of the National Trust, Carole Souter, chief executive of the Heritage Lottery fund, with a funding purse of 340 million, and Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage. Anna also visits popular heritage attractions to find out what their appeal is and why they are being successful during the recession