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The Money Programme is a finance and business affairs television programme on BBC Two which ran between April 1966 and November 2010. It was first broadcast on 5 April 1966 and presented by "commentators" (financial journalists) William Davis, Erskine B. Childers and Joe Roeber. The programme's theme tune was a version of the main title theme from The Carpetbaggers (1964) (which appeared on an album by jazz organist Jimmy Smith). By 1989, the programme was updated with a new theme by George Fenton, but an updated version of the original theme tune was re used again later on.

The programme used a magazine style starting in the 1980s, but changed to a single subject documentary in 2001.cite-ref-1[1] More recently the programme has formed a partnership with the Open University Business School. The Open University provides input into programmes and supplementary materials written by OU Business School academics.

On 1 June 2007, an episode of the Money Programme called "Virtual World / Real Millions" became the first full BBC programme to have been broadcast inside the virtual world Second Life.cite-ref-2[2] That episode featured an interview with Second Life founder and CEO Philip Rosedale amongst others.

This programme was parodied in Series 3 of Monty Python's Flying Circus as the opening sketch of the third episode in that series first airing on the BBC on 3 November 1972.cite-ref-montypython-3-0[3]

• Presenters

• Former presenters

• Interviewees

• References

• External links

• Max Flint

• Libby Potter

• James Bellini

• Michael Charlton

• Erskine B. Childers

• Adrian Chiles

• Nick Clarke

• Rajan Datar

• William Davis

• Maya Even

• Peter Hobday

• Peter Jay

• Donald MacCormick

• Michael Robinson

• Joe Roeber

• Valerie Singleton

• Hugh Stephenson

• Alan Watson

• Brian Widlake

• Jeff Bezos

• Lord Black of Crossharbour

• Tony Blair

• Michael Bloomberg

• Sir Richard Branson

• Lord Browne of Madingley

• Shiatzy Chen

• Stuart Lowry

• Michael Dell

• Michael Eisner

• Larry Ellison

• Sir Rocco Forte

• Bill Gates

• Sir Chris Gent

• Sir James Goldsmithcite-ref-4[4]

• Sir Philip Green

• Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou

• Robert Maxwell

• Alexander McQueen

• Lakshmi Mittal

• Rupert Murdoch

• Peter Oakley

• Bernd Pischetsrieder

• Sir Paul Smith

• George Soros

• Sir Alan Sugar

• Björn Ulvaeus

• Robin Wintercite-ref-5[5]

cite-note-11. ↑ citerefholmwood2008Holmwood, Leigh (3 September 2008). "BBC's Money Programme series to become one-off specials". The Guardian.

cite-note-22. ↑ BBC – Press Office – Money Programme is first BBC show to broadcast in Second Life

cite-note-montypython-33. ↑ recorded 4 December 1971) (2 November 1972). "The Money Programme". Monty Python's Flying Circus. Season 3. Episode 29. BBC. BBC One.

cite-note-44. ↑ "Predators vs Aliens II", Adam Curtis "The Medium and the Message" BBC blog, 20 July 2010

cite-note-55. ↑ BBC – Press Office – Money Programme is first BBC show to broadcast in Second Life

• The Money Programme at BBC Online

• The Money Programme at BBC Online - Archived page on BBC News

• The Money Programme partnership with Open University Archived 19 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine

• BBC's Money Programme series to become one-off specials (The Guardian)