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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
A Unique production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 5 May 2013 23:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in B Flat Major

    Performer: Alberto Martini

    • Vivaldi: Opera XII.
    • Tactus.
    • TC672238.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    La Bohème

    Performer: Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Panerai, Maffeo, Ghiaurov

    • Puccini: La Boheme.
    • Decca Records.
    • 421049-2.

  • Robert John Lange, Shania Twain

    Ka- Ching

    Performer: Shania Twain

    • Mercury Records Limited.
    • Greatest Hits.
    • B000307202.

  • Jocelyn Pook

    Shylock Broken

    Performer: David Juritz

    • Merchant of Venice official soundtrack.
    • Decca Records.
    • 475 6367.

  • 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:  David Copperfield

Author:  Charles Dickens

Publisher:   Wordsworth Editions Ltd

ISBN-10: 185326024X


Title:  Little Dorrit

Author:  Charles Dickens

Publisher:  Wordsworth Editions Ltd

ISBN-10: 1853261823


Title:  Gargantua and Pantagruel

Author: Francois Rabelais

Publisher:  W.W. Norton and company

ISBN-10: 0393308065


Title:  Worry about Money

Author: Kathleen Raine

Publisher:  The Oxford Book of Money

ISBN-10: 0192142003


Title:  Finance and the Good Society

Author:  Robert J Shiller

Publisher:  Princeton University Press

ISBN-10: 0691154880


Title:  The Merchant of Venice

Author:  William Shakespeare

Publisher:  Wordsworth Editions Ltd

ISBN-10: 1840224313

Broadcasts

  • Sun 5 May 2013 06:05
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
  • Sun 5 May 2013 23:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4