In the second of this two-part Dispatches , Will Hutton continues the definitive insider’s account of what went wrong. Hutton reveals how those who tried to warn of the impending financial disaster were shouted down, ignored or fired. As a result, the repercussions of the collapse of Lehman Brothers hit an unprepared and vulnerable UK. Hutton reveals the story of the weeks that followed Lehman’s collapse: weeks that will go down as some of the most crucial in Britain’s economic history, and asks what it will it take to lift the UK out of the biggest recession in living memory?

Monday 27 April 2009
8:00pm, Channel 4