Fairground Attractions

Stories behind the families who run a Treaure Island funfair, a fair in London and an authentic Victorian steam fair.

Tonight's episode features the Great Dorset Steam Fair, one of the biggest events in the showman calendar which attracts visitors from all corners of the UK and offers them a chance to meet old friends and swap tricks of the trade.

Carter’s Traditional Steam Fair have discovered in Weston Super Mare that their business is under threat from a rebuilt Grand Pier, which features all the latest hi-tech rides. Joby is refuses to take things lying down and he starts his own high profile publicity campaign, ending in a ‘dodgem v mobility scooter race’ along the seafront.