Economics

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BBC TV4
30-Jan-2003
UKTV
History
2005
 Great Political Mistakes -- 2
Atlee: The Triumph of the Dollar
 Narrated by Christopher Hird
produced and directed by Paul Oremland
 AVI VIDEO
46:02, 473415
BBC R4
23-Jul-2005 to
27-Aug-2005
Inside Money
  1. The Protection Racket
  2. Pensions on the House?
  3. Taking Stock
  4. Taking the Credit
  5. Little Treasure
  6. In the Red

  1. Karen Manning, Lesley Curwen
    Producer: Jennifer Clarke
  2. Helen Visvikis, Lesley Curwen
    Producer: Samantha Washington
  3. Lesley Curwen
    Producer Paul O'Keeffe
  4. Faith Stanley, Lesley Curwen
    Producer: Louise Greenwood
  5. Janet Gillis, Lesley Curwen
    Producer: Jennifer Clarke
  6. Lesley Curwen
    Producer Paul O'Keeffe

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BBC R4
04-Sep-2006
to
25-Sep-2006
 Driven by Oil
  1. When Will the Tap Run Dry?
  2. The China Syndrome
  3. Big Oil -- an Energy Pearl Harbor
  4. Kicking the Oil Habit
Tom Mangold
Producers: Anna Scott-Brown,
Adam Fowler		 27:45, 26029, S
28:06, 26358, S
26:50, 25158, S
27:16, 25573, S
07-Nov-2006 to
28-Nov-2006
 Why Should I Retire?
 Felicity Finch
Producer: Paul Kobrak
 4 files
56:31, 51.7 MB, S
BBC TV4
03-Jan-2007
 Mortgaged to the Yanks
 Christopher Meyer, Ken Clarke,
Denis Healey
Director/Producer Donna Sharpe
AVI VIDEO
59:55, 614652
06-Mar-2007 to
27-Mar-2007
 Price of Property
 Evan Davis
  1. Producer: Julia Adamson
  2. Producer Matthew Dodd
  3. Producer Neil McCarthy
  4. Producer Gavin Heard
 4 files
1:51:33, 102 MB, S
11-Apr-2007 to
09-May-2009
 The Reith Lectures 2007
  1. Bursting at the Seams
  2. Survival in the Anthropocene
  3. The Great Convergence
  4. Economic Solidarity for a Crowded Planet
  5. Global Politics in a Complex Age
 Jeffrey D Sachs
Producer: Jim Frank
 5 files
3:33:47, 195 MB, S
BBC R4
19-Dec-2006
War by Other Means
Trade Negotiations
Ngaire Woods
Produced by Hugh Levinson
36:58, 34667, S
07-Sep-2007
08-Sep-2007
 Credit Crunch
  1. Sub-Prime Woes
  2. Jackson Hole
 Stephen Evans
Produced by Richard Fenton-Smith
23:07, 21674, S
27:39, 25928, S
22-Dec-2007
 Laurie’s Loose Change
 Laurie Taylor
Produced by Richard Bannerman
 27:57, 26205, S
22-Jan-2008
The City: Is the Party Over?
Greg Wood
Produced by Julia Johnson
42:15, 39621, S
21-Feb-2008
28-Feb-2008
Sovereign Funds-- The New Wealth of Nations
 Michael Robinson
Produced by Ian Muir Cochrane
28:16, 26509, S
28:00, 26251, S
13-Apr-2008
The Missing Penny
Phil Mussell
Produced by Sophie Thomas
13:58, 13100, S
19-May-2008
Power Failure at the Central Bank
Robert Peston
Produced by Sue Davies
28:02, 26294, S
BBC R4
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

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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
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15-Sep-2008 The Credit Crunch Mess, What's Next Evan Davis, Robert Preston
Produced by Sue Davies		 57:07, 53556, S
20-Oct-2008 The Crash: A Walk through the City John McLaren
Produced by Phil Tinline 		28:18, 26539, S
28-Oct-2008
 Money on the Brain - neuroeconomics

 Tim Harford
produced by Jane Ashley
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BBC TV 2
24-Nov-2008
 An American Time Bomb: This World
The National Debt
 David Walker
Director: Patrick Creadon
Producer: Jonathan Brunert
 AVI VIDEO HD
58:30, 1455356
13-Jan-2009
 Schumpeter Rising - Joseph Schumpeter
 Hugh Hendry
Produced by Glynn Jones
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BBC R4
17-Aug-2009 to
07-Sep-2009
 Peston and the Money Men
  1. John Gieve
  2. Jim Chanos
  3. John Varley
  4. Adair Turner
 Robert Peston
produced by Jane Beresford
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26-Aug-2009 Rebooting RBS
Douglas Fraser
produced by Lucy Adam
27:50, 26095, S
11-Sep-2009
What Became of the Bank Manager?
Clive Anderson
produced by David Morley
28:10, 26411, S
12-Sep-2009
Give Us A Job -
The history of Labour Exchanges from
100 years ago
Michael Portillo
Produced by Josie Barnard
27:42, 25983, S
30-Oct-2009
The Entrepreneur's Wound
Robert Peston
produced by David Stenhouse
27:58, 26230, S
09-Feb-2010
I Was A Teenage Dotcom Millionaire
Benjamin Cohen
produced by Russell Finch
27:51, 26116, S
23-May-2010
The Greed Imperative
Catherine Cowley
Producer: Rosemary Foxcroft
27:53, 26147, S
24-May-2010
The Truth About Goldman Sachs
Paul Lewis
Producer: Sandra Kanthal
28:01, 26278, 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
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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
BBC R4
16-Mar-2011
23-Mar-2011
30-Mar-2011
Story of Economics, The
  1. Gods
  2. Cogs
  3. Monsters
 Michael Blastland
Producer: Richard Knight
27:48, 26074, S
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15-Mar-2011
22-Mar-2011
 The Search for Growth
Stephanie Flanders
Producers: Julia Johnson, John Murphy
27:47, 26053, S
28:00, 26251, S
16-May-2011
School for Startups
Prudhoe's class of 88
Presenter: Richard Collins
Producer: Mike Greenwood
27:44, 26009, 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
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
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
BBC R4
08-Aug-2012
15-Aug-2012
22-Aug-2012
29-Aug-2012
 Fixing Broken Banking
  1. PPI - The Inside Story
  2. Local Banking
  3. Peer to Peer Lending
  4. What Next for the Big Banks?
 Michael Robinson
produced by Phil Kemp
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BBC R4
03-Dec-2012 to
14-Dec-2012
 The Global Gap
  1. Mexico
    1. Business Students
    2. Fashion Designers
    3. Green Politicians
    4. Obesity Doctors
    5. Charity Workers
  2. Turkey
    1. Religious Leaders
    2. Business Women
    3. Sports Teachers
    4. Tour Guides
    5. Club Owners
 Reporter: Sarah Parker
Producer: Laura Parfitt



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11-Dec-2012
 Pension Off the Old Lady!
Kamal Ahmed
Producer Simon Coates
36:51, 34490, S
14-Jan-2013
 Outsourced
Chris Mullin
Producer: Jane Ashley
27:38, 25866, S
BBC R4
16-Jan-2013 to
13-Feb-2013
 Pop-Up Economics
  1. Hotpants v the knockout mouse
  2. The Kidney Matchmaker
  3. War-gaming Armageddon
  4. The Indiana Jones of Economics
  5. When Geeks Took Over Poker
 Tim Harford
Producer: Adele Armstrong
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25-Mar-2013 Inside the Bonus Culture Geraint Anderson
Producer: Chris Ledgard		 27:45, 25964, S
23-Apr-2013 File on Four
Tax Avoidance: The Hidden Cost		 Michael Robinson
produced by Neil Rozelle		 36:17, 33988, S
06-May-2013
 Stories from the Squeezed Middle
 Rosie Millard
Producer: Simon Elmes and Sarah Bowen
 27:37, 25867, S
17-Jun-2013
 Parkinson's Law Revisited
 Matthew Sweet
produced by David Stenhouse
 28:00, 26212, S
08-Jul-2013
 A Dark Magic --
the murky world of financial algorithms
 Robert Peston
Producer: Gemma Newby
 28:00, 26203, S
22-Jul-2013
29-Jul-2013
05-Aug-2013
 The Bishop and the Bankers
 James Jones
produced by Rosie Dawson
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07-Aug-2013
14-Aug-2013
21-Aug-2013
28-Aug-2013
 How You Pay for the City
 David Grossman
produced by Phil Kemp		 27:31, 25750, S
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23-Oct-2013
 Evan Davis Meets Alan Greenspan
 Evan Davis
Producers: Simon Hamer, Kent DePinto,
Charlotte McDonald
 27:45, 25964, S
BBC R4
02-Dec-2013 to
06-Dec-2013
 Greenback: How the Dollar Came to Rule the World
  1. From Wampums to Spanish Reals
  2. Not Worth a Continental
  3. The First and Second Banks
  4. Greenbacks and Goldbugs
  5. The Missing Ingredient
 Graham Ingham
Producer: Ruth Evans
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10-Dec-2013
 Inside the Fed
 Simon Jack
Producer: Sandra Kanthal
 36:54, 34533, S
06-Jan-2014
07-Jan-2014
08-Jan-2014
09-Jan-2014
 MINT: The Next Economic Giants
  1. Mexico - Brave New World
  2. Indonesia - Commodity Curse
  3. Nigeria - Africa's Hope
  4. Turkey - Beyond the Silk Road
 Jim O'Neill
produced by Mike Gallagher,
Andrew Bottford
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25-Mar-2014
 PPI: Britain's Biggest Banking Scandal
 Michael Robinson
produced by Phil Kemp
 37:06, 34723, S
03-May-2014
 The Art of Keynes
 Nicholas Wapshott
Producer: Trevor Dann
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BBC R4
25-Aug-2014 to
29-Aug-2014
 Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy
  1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  2. The Treasure Seekers
  3. The Million Pound Bank Note
  4. The Last Chronicle of Barset
  5. Cinderella
 Lucy Mangan
Producer: Janet Graves
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BBC R4
02-Mar-2015 to
13-Mar-2015
 Promises, Promises -- A History of Debt
  1. The Moral Power of Debt
  2. What Is Debt?
  3. The Origin of Money
  4. The Theology of Debt
  5. The Classical World
  6. The Medieval Period
  7. The Conquistadors and the Birth of the
    Modern World Economy
  8. The Birth of Capitalism
  9. The International Politics of Debt
  10. Hope
 David Graeber
Producer: Max O'Brien
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