The last in the four part series of Keep It In The Family goes out on Thursday 28 May at 9pm on BBC TWO. The series which has covered the hotel, farming and auctioneering businesses now moves to the retail sector and Austin’s Department store in Derry. Established in 1830, Austin’s of Derry is the oldest department store in the world. It survived a fire in 1908 and several bombings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland but can it survive the challenges of succession? 66-yr-old owner Luke Hasson is desperate to retire but all his children have made their lives else where, far away from Derry. The eldest of his five daughters, 39-year-old Sinead, runs her own successful London-based business in the cutthroat world of recruitment, but her only retail experience is as a teenage Saturday girl. How will she cope with the challenges of managing more than a hundred staff in 14 departments, and will she be willing to give up her established life and business in London to help save the family firm in Northern Ireland?

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