BBC Radio 4
Something Understood: The Currency Exchange
26th March 2009
Presented by Chris Brookes
Produced by Alan Hall
As the glacial financial crisis bites deeper, Canadian radio producer Chris Brookes explores the nature of exchange in our day-to-day lives, comparing the value of the two currencies that we deal in - money and human kindness.
With extracts from Benjamin Zephaniah's 'What If', Stephen Heighton's 'Some Other Just Ones' and the Jewish tradition of the Lamed-Vavniks and music by Martin Carthy, Ernest Bloch and Billie Holiday.
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