Thanks for downloading this podcast from the BBC, though it might not be what you expect.

Some of the people behind More or Less have been busy making another series, The Story

of Economics, presented by Michael Blasland and broadcast in three parts from Wednesday

the 16th of March.

Since More or Less is off air, we thought you might like this instead.

You can find out more about this series at bbc.co.uk slash radio 4.

It's a bright February morning in Athens and we're standing, this makes my heart beat

a little faster.

We're standing where Aristotle once taught, near the library of the Lissium, recently rediscovered

and soon to be excavated.

Greece is arguably where economics as a discipline began, and it was an economics that was in many

ways deeply moral with the gods much in mind, and if morals no longer seem relevant to the

dry economic calculus well, that's not how it seems here where people have died, protest

thing about their economic fortunes.

Three people have been killed in Athens in a petrol bomb attack on a bank during violent

protests.

I'm so angry, I don't want to speak any more, I'm ready to kill people.

It's time to rise up, it's time for evolution.

I feel very angry, it's the kind of anger that in ancient Greece they would say the

wrath of gods.

I feel this kind of wrath now, this kind of anger, because people have found themselves

owing money that they don't actually owe to anybody.

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