All Change! The Year We Went Decimal

This 60 min documentary for 5 digs into the weird and wonderful story of the decimalisation of British currency in 1971 – the biggest change in UK monetary history – when the ancient system of pounds, shillings and pence was replaced with decimal currency. Years in the making, this gargantuan operation involved minting billions of coins, converting millions of machines, and teaching the entire nation how to cope with this colossal conversion.