Role of the Bank of England | Inside the Bank of England

04: That Bloody Woman | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

As Mrs Thatcher's government transforms the British economy, tensions erupt within her inner circle and personal ...

Maxed Out: The Credit Card Trap | Panorama

As the cost-of-living crisis continues, millions are leaning on credit cards to make ends meet. Are regulators doing enough to pro...

The Highest Court in the Land: Justice Makers

In a film offering a glimpse of the human characters behind the judgments, four Justices of the Supreme Court talk about the na...

The role of the Bank of England | Inside the Bank of England

Explains the role that a central bank has in the running of an economy.

Deciding the Bank of England Base Rate | Inside the Bank of England

A look inside to see how the MPC votes on changes of interest rates

The Bank That Almost Broke Britain

The extraordinary story of how a small Scottish bank grew to become the biggest in the world before collapsing and triggering the largest ...

01: Keynes | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders looks at the life and work of economist John Maynard Keynes, and how his ideas have never been more relevant or controversia...

02: Hayek | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders looks at the radical free-market economist Friedrich Hayek's solution to the problems of capitalism - set it virtually totall...

03: Marx | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders examines the revolutionary and controversial ideas of Karl Marx which, as the global financial crisis continues, are once agai...

06: The Rise and Fall of Money | The Age of Uncertainty

From the elegant banks of 17th-century Amsterdam to the dark days of the Great Depression, Prof Galbraith traces the ...

Bubbles and market failure | Masters of Money

Bubbles in the financial sector

Communicating changes to interest rates | Inside the Bank of England

How interest rates are communicated with secrecy to the press.

Episode 2 | The Major Years

Tonight looks at Black Wednesday and the damage it did to Major's leadership. Both Major and Norman Lamont speak very frankly about their roles i...

Printing notes and coins | Inside the Bank of England

A look inside the Bank of England's underground vaults, where cages of freshly printed bank notes are stored ready for ...

The 2008 global financial crisis (part 1) | The Bank That Almost Broke Britain

An explanation of the credit crunch, including subprime lending in USA.

The 2008 global financial crisis (part 2) | The Bank That Almost Broke Britain

Explanation of the credit crunch, including subprime lending in USA.

The 2008 global financial crisis (part 3) | The Bank That Almost Broke Britain

Explanation of the credit crunch, including subprime lending in US.

The bailout of the Royal Bank of Scotland | The Bank That Almost Broke Britain

Interviews with Mervyn King and Andrew Bailey, detailing the intervention taken by the Bank of...

The causes of the Great Depression | Masters of Money

Explaining the history of the Great Depression, the longest, most severe economic downturn of the 20th century.

Why was RBS nationalised? | The Bank That Almost Broke Britain

Understanding the reasons why the Royal Bank of Scotland was nationalised during the global financial crisis.