BRETTON WOODS a new radio play by STEVE WATERS
June 12, 2014
Broadcasts Sunday 15 June at 10pm on BBC Radio 3.
Seventy years ago, in July 1944, with the most disastrous war in history in its death-throes, a secret meeting took place in a hotel deep in the forests of New Hampshire. Bankers and economists from over forty nations met to draw up a settlement to save the world economy and secure the peace. Everything depended on two men – John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White, played in this new play by Simon Callow as Keynes and Henry Goodman as White.
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