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Excerpt from The Guardian 8/27/09: John Shea

BBC World Service to air Lehman Brothers drama: Play starring John Shea and John Rothman to launch season focusing on impact of global recession
John Plunkett guardian.co.uk, Thursday 27 August 2009 07.16 BST

The BBC World Service is to dramatise the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in a radio drama recorded on location in and around Wall Street.

This fictionalised account of events over the weekend prior to the bank's demise and the chain of events that led to the critical decision to let Lehman die stars John Shea and John Rothman, and was made with the assistance of New York's WNYC Public Radio.

The Day That Lehman Died is written by Matthew Solon and directed by John Dryden, whose credits include Radio 4's 10-part serialisation of Vikas Swarup's Q&A, the novel that was turned into the Oscar-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire.

Solon and Dryden's 60-minute play, which will air on 5 September, will launch a season of programmes on the World Service, the BBC World News television channel and BBC.com investigating and reflecting on the impact of the global recession.

The Wall Street investment bank filed for Chapter 11 protection on 15 September 2008 and was the largest bankruptcy filed in US corporate history.

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