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[#171870] Written by: JungleBoy [24/11/11, 18:19]
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Ian Hislop presents a film about the colourful, seriously wealthy Victorian financiers whose
spectacular philanthropy shows that banking wasn't always associated with greed or self-serving
financial recklessness. Ian looks at attitudes to money and morality when the City of London first
became the world's financial centre. Many Victorian bankers were far from comfortable about their
new-found riches, which caused them intense soul-searching amidst furious national debate about the
moral purpose of money and its potential to corrupt. The bankers examined in this film include
Samuel Gurney, George Peabody, Angela Burdett-Coutts and Natty Rothschild. Ian champions these
extraordinary and generous individuals, and along the way, he meets Dr Giles Fraser, until his
recent, dramatic resignation canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, chairman of the FSA Lord
Turner, philanthropic financier the current Lord Rothschild, historian A N Wilson and chief rabbi
Lord Sacks.

BBC Site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017nf4k

Technical Spec
Source: HDTV
Video Codec: x264 CABAC
Video Bitrate: CRF 18 (3880Kbps average)
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1
Frames Per Second: 25
Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Audio Bitrate: 160 Kbps ABR 48KHz
Audio Channels: 2
Run-Time: 59 mins
Framerate: 25 FPS
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 1.66 GB
Subtitles: merged
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