Tuesday 15 September 2009

Special - Aftershock: The Crash a Year On

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Today22:30 on BBC Two (except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue))

SYNOPSIS

Jeremy Paxman presents a special edition of Newsnight exploring what's changed as a result of the financial meltdown.

Economics editor Paul Mason asks how the UK and the wider world have changed over the past year, and considers whether the credit crisis will lead to a wider intellectual revolution, as it did in the 1930s.

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Presenter
Jeremy Paxman

Views from Wall Street one year onThe collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers one year ago is widely considered to have marked the beginning of the global recession. Newsnight asked financial industry insiders about what happened and what lessons have been learned.