Business, Economics

Last Edited: 17-May-2012 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recordings are good unless otherwise indicated.

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Date Title Cast Parameters

21-Jul-2008 to
18-Aug-2008

Alvin Hall’s World of Money

  1. Commodities
  2. Wines
  3. Art
  4. Films
  5. Property

Alvin Hall
Produced by Samantha Washington, Sandra Kanthal

28:05, 26332, S
28:13, 26469, S
28:10, 26409, S
27:56, 26189, S
27:55, 26183, S
08-Sep-2008 to
12-Sep-2008

Making Money
A selection of readings from non-fiction and fiction
which illustrate what seems to be the endlessly
repetitive cycle of boom and bust that afflicts our
economy and financial well-being as a society.

  1. Monday: Greed
    The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles
    The Moneymaker by Janet Gleeson
    Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
    Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
    When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
    Metamorphoses XI by Ovid
  2. Tuesday: Opportunity
    Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
    The Moneymaker by Janet Gleeson
    When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
    Tulipmania by Anne Goldgar
    The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  3. Wednesday: Bandwagon
    The Reformation of Manners by Daniel Defoe
    Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
    The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
    The South Sea Bubble by John Carswell
    Tulipmania by Anne Goldgar
    When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
  4. Thursday: Crash
    The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
    Tulipmania by Anne Goldgar
    When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
    The South Sea Bubble by John Carswell
    Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay
    The Moneymaker by Janet Gleeson
    Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
  5. Friday: Recovery
    Metamorphoses XI by Ovid
    The Moneymaker by Janet Gleeson
    The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
    The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
    Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
    A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith
    The South Sea Bubble by John Carswell

Evan Davis
readers: Paul Jesson and Lucy Robinson
Producer Clive Brill

 14:07, 13238, S
14:17, 13398, S
14:04, 13189, S
14:07, 13236, S
13:39, 12807, S

11-Sep-2008
18-Sep-2008

The City

  1. Welcome to the Jungle

  2. Futures and Options

Jeff Randall
Produced by James Cook

41:50, 39224, S
42:06, 39476, S
15-Sep-2008

The Credit Crunch Mess, What's Next

 Evan Davis, Robert Preston
Produced by Sue Davies		 57:07, 53556, S
23-Oct-2008

The Crash: Alvin Hall's Wall Street Walk

 Alvin Hall
Produced by Richard Vardon		 28:12, 26453, S
08-Mar-2010 to
19-Mar-2010

A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping

 Jolyon Jenkins
produced by Beatrice Fenton		 13:57, 13086, S
13:53, 13027, S
13:56, 13072, S
13:54, 13045, S
13:53, 13023, S
13:50, 12982, S
13:54, 13033, S
13:40, 12824, S
13:58, 13098, S
13:56, 13074, S
30-Mar-2010

How Myers-Briggs Conquered the Office

 Mariella Frostrup
produced by Lucy Adam		 27:45, 26023, S
04-Aug-2010 to
25-Aug-2010

Alvin Hall's Generations of Money

  1. the under 40s
  2. twenty-somethings
  3. Britain's young families
  4. pensioners
Alvin Hall
produced by Phil Kemp		 27:55, 26178, S
27:55, 26173, S
27:45, 26017, S
28:00, 26265, S
24-Aug-2010

Trouble in Euroland

Jonathan Charles
Producer: Kati Whitaker

 36:51, 34548, S
13-Sep-2010 to
15-Sep-2010

Evan Loves Tax

  1. a European-style welfare state with American-style tax levels
  2. why has the tax system become so complicated
  3. how well we make decisions about tax in Britain

Evan Davis
Producer: Phil Tinline

 42:01, 39399, S
41:58, 39349, S
41:54, 39283, S
16-Sep-2010
17-Sep-2010

Can Pay, Will Pay

  1. why pay at the top has got so high
  2. The setting of pay levels

Danny Finkelstein
Producer: Giles Edwards, Jane Ashley

 41:40, 39079, S
41:58, 39350, S
01-Nov-2010

Sack 'Em

Winifred Robinson
Producer: Giles Edwards

 27:43, 25997, S
15-Nov-2010
22-Nov-2010

The New MBAs

 Mark Whittaker
Producer: Mike Hally		 27:58, 26229, S
27:53, 26151, S
14-Dec-2010
Inside the IMF

Stephanie Flanders
Producer: Neil Koenig

 36:40, 34389, S
17-Feb-2011

Scientists of the Subprime

Ehsan Masood
Producer Monise Durrani

 27:50, 26095, S
01-Mar-2011

The Smell of Money

 Presenter: Mark Miodownik
Producer: Michelle Martin		 27:51, 26123, S
14-Mar-2011

Mr Tesco: The Legacy of Terry Leahy

Presenter: Damian Reece
Producer: Liz Carney

 27:45, 26028, S
15-Mar-2011
22-Mar-2011

The Search for Growth

Stephanie Flanders
Producers: Julia Johnson and John Murphy

 27:47, 26053, S
28:00, 26251, S
16-Mar-2011
23-Mar-2011
30-Mar-2011

The Story of Economics

  1. Gods
  2. Cogs
  3. Monsters

Michael Blastland
Producer: Richard Knight

 27:48, 26074, S
27:41, 25967, S
27:43, 25992, S

23-Aug-2007 to
20-Sep-2007

07-Aug-2008 to

A Wonderful Way to Make a Living

  1. Professional Celebrants
  2. Psychic
  3. Fight Choreographers
  4. Naked Yoga
  5. Presenters
  6. Emergency Shirt Delivery
  7. decluttering professional
  8. penetration testers
  9. explosion creators
  10. gondolier

Joe Queenan
Produced by Miles Warde

13:49, 12965, S
13:33, 12712, S
13:56, 13078, S
13:37, 12776, S
13:38, 12946, S

13:54, 13044, S
13:42, 12857, S
13:44, 12880, S
13:53, 13024, S
13:44, 12876, S
03-Apr-2011 to
24-Apr-2011

Wonderful Ways to Beat the Recession

  1. Shopjacket and laughter therapy
  2. renting out police stations and fire stations
  3. Claire Wade's virtual holidays
  4. life coach

Joe Queenan
producer is Miles Warde

 13:37, 12770, S
13:36, 12758, S
13:27, 12616, S
13:45, 12900, S
17-May-2011

The Bankers and the Bottom Billion

 Presenter: Mukul Devichand
Producer: Ruth Alexander		 36:45, 34465, S
03-Aug-2011

Keynes Vs. Hayek

Paul Mason
produced by Daniel Tetlow

 42:38, 39886, S
27-Sep-2011
04-Oct-2011

Capitalism on Trial 

Michael Portillo
Producer: Julia Johnson, James Cook

 41:46, 39089, S
41:38, 38963, S
19-Oct-2011
26-Oct-2011
02-Nov-2011

Stephanomics

  1. The Future
  2. The Causes
  3. national democracies and global markets

Stephanie Flanders
Producer: Caroline Bayley
Editor Stephen Chilcott

 27:46, 25983, S
27:36, 25825, S
27:48, 26011, S
14-Nov-2011
21-Nov-2011

The New Global Economics

  1. The Shock
  2. The Shift

Martin Wolf
Producer Sandra Kanthal

27:50, 26046, S
27:52, 26080, S
03-Jan-2012

Inside Fortress Bill -- the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Katie Derham
Producer: David Prest

 36:34, 34220, S
04-Jan-2012
11-Jan-2012

Among the Managers

Robert Peston
produced by David Stenhouse

 27:46, 25987, S
27:46, 25982, S
02-May-2012

The Today Programme Lecture -- Sir Mervyn King

Sir Mervyn King
introduced by Evan Davis
produced by Simon Haymer and Chad Gill

 42:50, 40077, S

21-Jul-2008 to
18-Aug-2008

Alvin Hall’s World of Money

  1. Commodities
  2. Wines
  3. Art
  4. Films
  5. Property

Alvin Hall
Produced by Samantha Washington, Sandra Kanthal

28:05, 26332, S
28:13, 26469, S
28:10, 26409, S
27:56, 26189, S
27:55, 26183, S

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