A Greek Drama

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This summer, as Greece and its creditors argued over the terms of a bailout, the fate of nations – and perhaps the whole European project – was held in the hands of just a few people. This original drama, tells the inside story of those extraordinary months.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
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0:17.0	In early 2015, the Euro was brought to the brink of collapse
0:21.0	as Greece and her creditors struggled to agree a bailout deal.
0:25.0	Now in this original drama based on contemporary
0:28.0	journalistic accounts and new research, we've pieced together
0:31.0	those extraordinary events.
0:33.0	Some scenes have been created for dramatic purposes.
0:37.0	A Greek drama was written by Matthew Solon.
0:43.0	The sobering Greek people have today given a clear, strong
0:48.0	and indisputable mandate.
0:51.0	January 25, 2015.
0:53.0	Greece has turned a page.
0:55.0	Athens.
0:56.0	Greece is living behind five years of humiliation and pain.
1:03.0	In Sintagma Square, outside the Greek Parliament,
1:06.0	the newly elected Prime Minister Alexis Cipras makes a victory speech.
1:12.0	You're verdict and all today in an absolute and undeniable way.
1:17.0	The bailout agreement of authoritarianism, austerity and disaster.
1:23.0	Sirisa, the party he leads, founded in 2004 as a coalition of socialist
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