At the end of the WWII, the need to replace housing that had been damaged or destroyed in air raids was so acute that prefabricated houses were investigated as a short-term alternative. The post-war housing minister, Nye Bevan, dismissed these 'prefabs' as "rabbit hutches", but curiously, they emerged as one of the most popular forms of council housing due to the size and relative privacy they offered.
The Ten Year Plan stars the Carry On series actor Charles Hawtrey as a mischievous young writer who is sent to report on a range of prefabs, discovering with some surprise that many of them look like "real" houses.
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The Ten Year Plan (17:00)
