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Radio 4,29 Aug 2014,15 mins

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Writer Lucy Mangan searches her bookshelves to find literary solutions to the economy. In this programme, the final in the series, she turns to the fairy tale of Cinderella, as written by Charles Perrault. This is the version where all the magic happens, and good triumphs in the end. In this enlightening and witty series, Lucy talks to economists Andrew Sentance, formerly one of the treasury's wise men, and economist Bridget Rosewell, to see what fairy tales can contribute to the economic recovery debate . Producer: Janet Graves A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4.

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