The Money Programme
5.6
1966
News
Britain's most popular financial and business programme.
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- Cast:
- Jeremy Clarkson
Episode 13 : Media revolution: Tomorrow’s TV
February. 19,2009
A decade ago, the UK was a net importer of television programmes. Now we're one of the most powerful players on the international television stage, exporting more than half the world's TV "formats".
But a transformation in the way viewers consume television is turning the industry's business model on its head and threatening the long-term future
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Episode 12 : Do speculators exploit the poor
January. 29,2009
Financial speculators have been blamed for inflicting recession on the rich world and starvation on poorer countries.
They have been accused of buying up contracts for vital commodities - not to use, but to hold in the hope of price rises.
And, by buying up billions of dollars worth of food and oil contracts, it's claimed that they artificially drove up prices, wrecked businesses and put food out of the reach of people in poorer countries.
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Episode 11 : Media revolution: stop press?
February. 05,2009
Newspapers are facing tough times.
Over the last decade, the UK's favourite dailies have lost some 2.25 million readers.
Falling circulations mean less money through the till and newspapers' other main source of income - advertising - is also drying up.
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Episode 9 : Cash and Curry
March. 05,2009
Curry is Britain's favourite food. And it's big business.
Curry houses, takeaways and ready meals make up an industry worth more than £3bn.
At least 18 tonnes of chicken tikka masala is eaten across the country each week, served up by Britain's 15,000 Indian restaurants.
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Episode 7 : Mary Portas: Save Our Shops
June. 23,2009
For the past ten years, the British have shopped till they dropped. Now recession is threatening the nation's favourite pastime, and one of its biggest industries. It is the latest blow for many of Britain's beleaguered high streets.
Retail guru Mary Portas wants to discover why boom towns are becoming bust towns, and what can be done to stop the extraordinary number of shop closures around Britain.
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Episode 6 : In the Firing Line
June. 16,2009
In the second of this Money Programme series looking at different sectors of Britain's economy in the recession, Newsnight's Paul Mason covers the moving story of rising unemployment from the shop floor of two struggling manufacturing companies in the Midlands.
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Episode 5 : Gregg Wallace's Recession Bites
June. 30,2009
As the recession bites into our wallets one of the first things we've tried to cut back on is our spending on food.
And the downturn is affecting not only how much we fork out on food but also what we are putting into our shopping baskets.
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Episode 1 : Fast Bucks: How Porsche made Billions
January. 22,2009
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