| The City Uncovered | |
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The City Uncovered title card |
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| Genre | Factual, finance |
| Format | Documentary series |
| Written by | Evan Davis |
| Directed by | Andy Webb |
| Presented by | Evan Davis |
| Composer(s) | Mike Roberts |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Lucy Hetherington |
| Producer(s) | Steven Duke Samuel Goss Joanna Potts Amy Walker (Assistant producers) Simon Finch (series producer) Andy Webb |
| Editor(s) | Simon Thorne |
| Location(s) | London New York Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Running time | 1 hour |
| Production company(s) | BBC Productions |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC Two |
| Original run | 14 January 2009 – 28 January 2009 |
The City Uncovered with Evan Davis is a 2009 British documentary series.
The City Uncovered deals with the history of finance, and the recent events of the financial crisis of 2007–2010.[1] The three-part BBC series, presented by journalist Evan Davis, was a part of the "City Season" programming on the BBC. It aired on BBC 2 in the UK at 9 pm on Wednesday evenings between 14 January and 28 January 2009.[2] The episodes were shown again on BBC One days later. The title is a reference to the common name of the financial areas of London, known as The City, which is similar to places such as Wall Street in New York City.
| Episode number | Title | Content[3] | Original air date |
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| 1 | "Banks and How to Break Them" | Davis examines a brief history of banking and how banks are meant to work, and then discusses the chain of events which led to the downfall of Lehman Brothers in the US and Northern Rock in the UK. | 14 January 2009 |
| 2 | "Tricks with Risk" | Davis examines risk management, derivatives, and how hedge funds are able to make money, if the markets go up, or down. | 21 January 2009 |
| 3 | "When Markets Go Mad" | Davis examines the beginnings of the current credit crisis including the bubble in property prices, and how prices can be set in the global financial markets. | 28 January 2009 |