A Long Time In Finance

Remembering Black Wednesday: Part Two

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Episode notes

In the second of our three-part series on Black Wednesday, the sterling crisis that drove Britain out of Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism in the autumn of 1992, Neil and Jonathan look back on the events of the day itself with Sir Paul Tucker, who watched the mounting chaos from the Bank of England.


Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.

With Sir Paul Tucker.

Produced and edited by Nick for Podot.

Additional editing by Ewan Cameron.


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