The Day That Lehman Died

On September 15, 2008 Lehman Brothers, one of the oldest and largest investment banks in the world, with its headquarters in New York, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It was the largest bankruptcy filed in US history and sent the already unstable global financial markets into an uncontrollable tailspin.

Based on insider interviews, an audio reconstruction for BBC World Service of what happened the previous weekend...

Starring Stephen Skybell, John Shea, John Rothman, Marsha Dietlein and Aaron Serotsky, Beau Gravitte, John Leonard Thompson, Jacob Knoll & William Parry

Writer, Matthew Solon; Sound Design, Steve Bond; Executive Producer, Jeremy Skeet; Director, John Scott Dryden.

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