The Money Programme

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The Money Programme
The logo of "The Money Programme" (as of 2008)
Genre	Finance & Business Affairs
Presented by	Max Flint & Libby Potter
Opening theme	Main Theme from the Carpetbaggers
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC
Original airing	5 April 1966
External links
Official website

The Money Programme is a finance and business affairs television programme on BBC2.

It was first broadcast on 5 April 1966 and presented by "commentators" (financial journalists) William Davis, Erskine Childers and Joe Roeber. At this time David Attenborough was the controller of BBC2.

The programme has a distinctive theme tune, called "Main Theme from The Carpetbaggers", from the 1964 movie adaptation of Harold Robbins' book.

Since the start the programme used a magazine style, but changed to a single subject documentary in 2001. 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.^[1] 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 3 November 1972.