Debt
Mark Tully discusses the moral issues raised by debt in the financial crisis. With advice from Alvin Hall, music by Handel and readings by Harriet Walter and Tim Pigott-Smith.
Ever since the current financial crisis started back in 2007, debt has been on everybody's mind.
Much of the discussion in the media has been about economics and ways to alleviate the crisis. What about the moral questions debt raises?
Mark Tully discusses our social and philosophical attitudes to the problem of debt and talks to financial educator and broadcaster Alvin Hall.
There are readings from Dickens, Shakespeare and the poet Kathleen Raine and music by composers ranging from Handel to Jocelyn Pook. The readers are Harriet Walter and Tim Pigott-Smith.
Produced by: Frank Stirling
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in B Flat Major
Performer: Alberto Martini
- Vivaldi: Opera XII.
- Tactus.
- TC672238.
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Giacomo Puccini
La Boh猫me
Performer: Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Panerai, Maffeo, Ghiaurov
- Puccini: La Boheme.
- Decca Records.
- 421049-2.
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Robert John Lange, Shania Twain
Ka- Ching
Performer: Shania Twain
- Mercury Records Limited.
- Greatest Hits.
- B000307202.
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Jocelyn Pook
Shylock Broken
Performer: David Juritz
- Merchant of Venice official soundtrack.
- Decca Records.
- 475 6367.
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George Frideric Handel
Solomon ("Arrival of the Queen of Sheba")
Performer: English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge
- Handel Overtures.
- Decca Records.
- 466 434-2.
Readings
Title:聽 David Copperfield
Author: 聽Charles Dickens
Publisher: 聽聽Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN-10: 185326024X
Title:聽 Little Dorrit
Author: 聽Charles Dickens
Publisher: 聽Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN-10: 1853261823
Title:聽 Gargantua and Pantagruel
Author: Francois Rabelais
Publisher: 聽W.W. Norton and company
ISBN-10: 0393308065
Title:聽 Worry about Money
Author: Kathleen Raine
Publisher: 聽The Oxford Book of Money
ISBN-10: 0192142003
Title:聽 Finance and the Good Society
Author: 聽Robert J Shiller
Publisher: 聽Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 0691154880
Title:聽 The Merchant of Venice
Author: 聽William Shakespeare
Publisher: 聽Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN-10: 1840224313
Broadcasts
- Sun 5 May 2013 06:05大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 5 May 2013 23:30大象传媒 Radio 4