American Banking Crisis – The Radio Drama
One of the hardest things to do as a journalist is to turn something which is complicated and boring into something simple and interesting…
Last year This American Life produced a fantastic show on the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US, which can be streamed from here. It broke down the whole mess into a nice easily understandable sequence of events.
They’ve followed up with part 2 on breaking down how banks actually work. With the help of Alex Blumberg and NPR’s Adam Davidson the TAL manage to create a sort of radio drama on the current banking crisis.
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Colin Parte added these insightful comments on Mar 05 09 at 12:10 pmBoth the TAL podcasts were excellent. Helped a numpty like me understand what was going on.
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