1981: Life of the EXTREMELY WEALTHY | Man Alive | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
BBC ArchiveCigars at £120 a time. £2,000 a year on hairdos. Gold-plated baths costing £5,000 each. Handkerchiefs at £10 a blow. A yacht at a quarter of a million pounds. Who is buying them? And, more intriguingly, how? Despite the worst recession since the 1930s, there still seems to be plenty of money about