| The Money Programme | |
|---|---|
 The Money Programme logo as of 2008 | |
| Genre | Finance and business affairs |
| Presented by | Max Flint and Libby Potter |
| Opening theme | Main Title from The Carpetbaggers |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC2 |
| Release | 5 April 1966 – 9 November 2010 |
The Money Programme is a finance and business affairs television programme on BBC Two which ran between April 1966 and November 2010. It was first broadcast on 5 April 1966 and presented by "commentators" (financial journalists) William Davis, Erskine B. Childers and Joe Roeber.
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The programme's theme tune was a version of the main title theme from The Carpetbaggers (1964) (which appeared on an album by jazz organist Jimmy Smith). By 1989, the programme was updated with a new theme by George Fenton, but an updated version of the original theme tune was reused again later on.[ citation needed ]
The programme used a magazine style starting in the 1980s, but changed to a single subject documentary in 2001. [1] More recently,[ when? ] the programme has formed a partnership with the Open University Business School. The Open University provides input into programmes and supplementary materials written by OU Business School academics.
On 1 June 2007, an episode of the Money Programme called "Virtual World / Real Millions" became the first full BBC programme to have been broadcast inside the virtual world Second Life . [2] That episode featured an interview with Second Life founder and CEO Philip Rosedale amongst others.
This programme was parodied in Series 3 of Monty Python's Flying Circus as the opening sketch of the third episode in that series first airing on the BBC on 3 November 1972. [3] [ importance? ]
