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Page last updated at 09:57 GMT, Saturday, 4 September 2010 10:57 UK

Pillow talk: Twin bed culture

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Sybil and Basil did it in the Fawlty Towers hotel.

And in the days when first division meant the first division, professional footballers did it too.

Stephen Smith looks at the cultural legacy of the twin bed hotel room.

Broadcast on Friday 3 September 2010.

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