1976: Operation Hot Cross Bun gets underway

Good Friday is the day when hot cross buns are traditionally eaten, but what do you do if you suddenly find yourself with a quarter of a million of them on your hands? When a packaging error resulted in a supermarket cancelling its order, one man found himself trying to sell mountains of the buns in just three days.

Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 15 April 1976.

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