LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

City Week special

Genre

Interview; Special

TX Date

11 Apr 1982

Year of production

1982

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Duration

00:24:02

Description

City Week special with Tom Maddocks interviewing Finance Editor of the Investor’s Chronicle, Margaret Reid, about her new book The Secondary Banking Crisis, 1973-1975: Its Causes and Course; events leading up to the 1973 crisis when Edward Heath’s government created a property price boom fuelled by a secondary banking sector free of lending controls; rescue operation mounted by the Bank of England and high street banks to prevent the collapse of the smaller companies and the entire British financial system. Break in recording.

Contributors

Tom Maddocks; Margaret Reid

Keywords

Books; Edward Heath; Economic policy; Prime ministers; Economic systems; Banks; Financial policy; Banking; Bank of England; Financial institutions; The Secondary Banking Crisis, 1973-1975: Its Causes and Cour

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