The City Uncovered

The City Uncovered
The City Uncovered title card
Genre	Factual, finance
Written by	Evan Davis
Directed by	Andy Webb
Presented by	Evan Davis
Composer(s)	Mike Roberts
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	3 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Lucy Hetherington
Producer(s)	Steven Duke Samuel Goss Joanna Potts Amy Walker (Assistant producers) Simon Finch (series producer) Andy Webb
Location(s)	London New York City Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne
Editor(s)	Simon Thorne
Running time	1 hour
Production company(s)	BBC Productions
Release
Original network	BBC Two
Original release	14 January – 28 January 2009

The City Uncovered with Evan Davis is a 2009 British documentary series.

Background

The City Uncovered deals with the history of finance, and the recent events of the financial crisis of 2007–2010.^[1] The three-part BBC series, presented by journalist Evan Davis, was a part of the "City Season" programming on the BBC. It aired on BBC 2 in the UK at 9 pm on Wednesday evenings between 14 and 28 January 2009.^[2] The episodes were shown again on BBC One days later. The title is a reference to the common name of the financial areas of London, known as The City, which is similar to places such as Wall Street in New York City.

Episode list

Episode number	Title	Content^[3]	Original air date
1	"Banks and How to Break Them"	Davis examines a brief history of banking and how banks are meant to work, and then discusses the chain of events which led to the downfall of Lehman Brothers in the US and Northern Rock in the UK.	14 January 2009
2	"Tricks with Risk"	Davis examines risk management, derivatives, and how hedge funds are able to make money, if the markets go up, or down.	21 January 2009
3	"When Markets Go Mad"	Davis examines the beginnings of the current credit crisis including the bubble in property prices, and how prices can be set in the global financial markets.	28 January 2009