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The Day that Lehman Died
On September 15, 2008 Lehman Brothers, one of the oldest and largest investment banks in the world filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It was the largest bankruptcy case in US history and sent the already unstable markets into an uncontrollable tailspin. As part of the 大象传媒 World Service's Aftershock season exploring the impact of the global recession, a play will be broadcast - The Day that Lehman Died - which dramatizes events over the weekend leading up to the bank's collapse. We talk to the play's writer Matthew Solon and director John Dryden.

Douglas Coupland
The Canadian author returns with Generation A, set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people from around the world are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in a way they never could have imagined. Mark meets the novelist to find out if his latest offering will come to define an era just like Generation X did nearly twenty years ago.

Re-mastering The Beatles music - a good or bad thing?
Next week sees the release of The Beatles entire back catalogue re-mastered, remixed and cleaned-up for the digital era. This coincides with 'The Beatles: Rock Band' music video game hitting the shops worldwide. The re-mastering process has taken the engineers at the Abbey Road studios in London nearly fours years to complete. But, some argue that the band's music should be heard as it was released back in the '60s and '70s with all those electrical clicks, microphone vocal pops and bad edits which give the music its unique, instantly recognisable sound. Mark is joined by the music critics John Aizlewood and Caspar Llewellyn Smith to discuss.