BBC to Produce feature "Last Days of Lehman Brothers"

The British Broadcasting Corporation is to produce a feature film style documentary, chronicling the last days of the failed US investment bank Lehman Brothers.  The dramatisation will include performances by LA Confidential actor James Cromwell, and a whole host of other well known actors and actresses.

The feature will be aired in the Autumn, and will be accompanied by a three-part landmark documentary series looking back at the global financial crisis. The Love of Money will include interviews with many of the leading figures in the crisis, including prime minister Gordon Brown, chancellor Alistair Darling, Bank of England chief Mervyn King, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, US congressional leaders and the finance ministers of France, Germany and Iceland. The chief executives of Merrill Lynch and Barclays, Lehman Brothers' lawyer Rodgin Cohen, and its bankruptcy lawyer, Harvey Miller, also feature.

It is the second feature-length production that the BBC has produced and aired this year, with Dominic Savage's "Freefall" airing earlier in the year.