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1957: The Onion Seller | Eye to Eye: Onion Johnnie | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
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29:32Now PlayingHe is a man who lives half his life in France and half in Britain. In this film we follow the Breton onion-sellers - the distinctive "Onion Johnnies," with their bicycles, berets and strings of onions, from their homes in Roscoff, Brittany to the doorsteps of houses throughout Britain.
Clip taken from Eye to Eye: Onion Johnnie, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 20 September, 1957.
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