BBC Two 2001 1 season 4 eps Ended

Tales from the Global Economy

Name: Tales from the Global Economy
Genre: Documentary

2001 1 season 4 eps

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S1 · E1 · Aug 26, 2001

The Cappuccino Trail Episode 1

In the UK, a cup of coffee could cost you £3, yet the farmers who grow the raw green coffee beans might earn less than a penny a cup. The quest for the perfect cappuccino links the poor farmers of Peru and the global weather effect to Wall Street trading pits and fickle consumer tastes.

S1 · E2 · Sep 2, 2001

Greenspan Alert! Episode 2

Alan Greenspan is possibly the most powerful man in the world. He is chairman of the US Federal Reserve and, as such, is responsible for revealing the new US interest rate every eight weeks. Tonight's programme explores Greenspan's mythology and looks at how the world hangs on his every word.

S1 · E3 · Sep 9, 2001

Where's Our Money? Episode 3

Choreographers Jan and Ken Smith have poured their life savings into a pension fund, but like most of us they have no idea where their money has gone, or what it is doing - good or bad. This programme follows an amazing trail of investment from London to the four corners of the world where their money, unbeknown to them, is being invested in a curious and sometimes contradictory range of enterprises.

S1 · E4 · Sep 16, 2001

Santa: Supply and Demand Episode 4

How Santa Claus has become the patron saint of supply and demand and the key to a billion dollar worldwide industry.

4 episodes in Season 1

Four-part series unearthing the links between daily life and the workings of the global economy.

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Jeremy Newson Director · Gina Newson Executive producer

Director

Jeremy Newson

Executive producer Editor

Gina Newson

Type Miniseries · Country United Kingdom · Premiered August 26, 2001

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Premiered

August 26, 2001

Final episode

September 16, 2001

Status

Ended

Network

BBC Two

Country

United Kingdom

Type

Miniseries

Original language

English

Production

Freelance Film Partners

Production

United Kingdom

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Spoken on screen

English

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