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 Title from The Carpetbaggers", from the 1964 movie adaptation of Harold Robbins' book and written by Elmer Bernstein.

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  • 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 Title from The Carpetbaggers", from the 1964 movie adaptation of Harold Robbins' book and written by Elmer Bernstein. 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. 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.
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  • The logo of "The Money Programme" (as of 2008)
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  • 5 April 1966
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  • Main Title from The Carpetbaggers
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  • 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 Title from The Carpetbaggers", from the 1964 movie adaptation of Harold Robbins' book and written by Elmer Bernstein.
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