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Before ‘too big to fail” — and even before Gordon Gecko — Stephen Fry starred in a mid-1980s program called “Delve Special”, which parodied hard-hitting investigative reporting.
In a re-run available this week on BBC Radio 7’s website, Fry’s character David Lander probes the financial wheeling and dealing taking place in London at the time – which seem to bear a remarkable parallel to what is taking place today.
In a re-run available this week on BBC Radio 7’s website, Fry’s character David Lander probes the financial wheeling and dealing taking place in London at the time – which seem to bear a remarkable parallel to what is taking place today.
Listeners might have to stop at least a couple of times during the program, as I did, to remind themselves that the show first aired in 1986. It is as if today’s Wall Street executives and regulators had been scripted by program’s writers.
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