Julian Gough sez, “I get the feeling you and some of your readers are, um, not entirely unconvinced by austerity as an economic strategy. So you might like the BBC’s free Drama of the Week podcast. It’s a satire on Eurozone austerity economics called The Great Squanderland Roof, by, er, me. It’s free, downloadable worldwide till Friday, and it stars some great actors, like Dermot Crowley who was in Fr. Ted and, er, Return of the Jedi.
What can we do but laugh?
Hope you like it.
Here’s the official BBC blurb on it:”
Jude lives in a henhouse with no roof, in the bankrupt Republic of Squanderland. Purchased for ten million euro at the height of the credit bubble, his henhouse has been rated the asset in Europe most likely to default. To solve this small but symbolic problem and restore confidence in the markets, Europe’s leaders need a plan. Sadly, putting a roof on Jude’s henhouse quickly escalates out of control. Soon they are committed to building a roof over the entire country, half a mile above the startled voters… But what happens when a structure that’s too big to fail finally fails? To the horror of Europe’s bankers and politicians, Jude comes up with a dramatic (and rather romantic) solution to the Eurozone crisis…
‘The Great Squanderland Roof’ stars Rory Keenan as the hapless Jude (whose recent credits include ‘The Kitchen’ at the National, ‘A Dublin Carol’ at the Donmar and ‘Birdsong’ on BBC TV) in his debut BBC Radio role, Dermot Crowley as a banker turned government minister, and Stephanie Flanders, the BBC’s Economics Editor.
The Great Squanderland Roof 2 Mar 12
(Thanks, Julian!)