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The Learning Zone: Living With Money

Thinking of how and why money makes the world go round

World Service,10 episodes

Episodes

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What is Money?
Examining money - looking at coins, paper, plastic and electronic forms of money
30 Dec 1998,14 mins
Barter
How to live without money
13 Jan 1999,13 mins
The Royal Mint
Britain’s Royal Mint has been making coins for more than a thousand years
15 Jan 1999,13 mins
Paper Money
How are banknotes used? How are they made?
21 Jan 1999,13 mins
Banks
Banks specialise in the trading and exchanging of money
10 Feb 1999,13 mins
Hyperinflation
When more currency is used to buy goods, it's called hyperinflation
17 Feb 1999,13 mins
National Currency
Nations forming their own currency
25 Feb 1999,13 mins
Old Money
Exploring attitudes towards money and how people think and feel about money
26 Feb 1999,13 mins
Mysteries of Money
Money has come to be more than an economic tool
12 Mar 1999,13 mins
Living With Money
New kinds of money and the future: will a production line of coins be a thing of the past?
19 Mar 1999,14 mins