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Trapped by My Mortgage
Andy Verity meets the ex-Northern Rock customers who are still trapped on high interest rates and whose mortgages have now been taken over by an aggressive private equity fund.
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners thought they had been saved when the government took over their mortgages during the financial crisis. But ten years on, the former Northern Rock customers are still trapped on high interest rates and now their mortgages have been taken over by an aggressive private equity fund. Reporter Andy Verity meets the families who say they have been sold out by their own government.
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Sat 27 Oct 201801:30
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Trapped by my Mortgage
Duration: 02:55
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:01Peter Broderick
For Piano
00:03Four Tet
Two Thousand And Seventeen
00:11Caribou
Bees
00:20Wild Beasts
Deeper
00:21James Heather
Ruqia
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reporter | Andy Verity |
| Producer | Cat McShane |
| Executive Producer | Andrew Head |
| Editor | John Martin |

