Lord Mervyn King Remembers - The Age of Uncertainty

BBC Four HD

10:00 PM to 10:20 PM

Sunday 19 October

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The former governor of the Bank of Englandlooks back on the BBC's 1977 series on the history of economic thinking, which was written and presented by the highly influential economist and intellectual John Kenneth Galbraith. The series tackled the challenge of bringing economics to a mainstream audience, seemingly sparing no expense in its use of actors, elaborate sets and multiple international locations. Lord King gives an assessment of the series five decades on from its original transmission, sharing his opinion of Galbraith and his methods, and explaining why the series divided critics at the time