AMERICAS “Something like the following took place,” runs the opening line of The Last Days of Lehman Brothers. This carefully calibrated disclaimer last night gave the BBC a certain dramatic leeway as it broadcast an imaginative recreation of a momentous weekend in New York a year ago.
On Thursday night the BBC’s new series The Love of Money opens with a documentary, The Bank that Bust the World, complete with contributions from Gordon Brown, the prime minister; the president of Brazil; Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor; and the Lehman figures present at the bank’s collapse. Surprisingly, the documentary is more dramatic than the drama.
