Thursday, August 25, 2011

Programming note: Sky News on Friday night at 20:30 will broadcast a special documentary, Greek Myths: The birth of a Crisis.


Sky News (DStv 402) will have a special documentary on Friday evening (tomorrow, 26 August) entitled Greek Myths: The Birth of a Crisis at 20:30 (South African time) presented by Jeff Randall and which will look at the state of the Greek economy and its effect on the rest of the European Union and the world markets.

Greek Myths: The Birth of a Crisis will look at how the Greek economy was broken by debt and delusion which has prompted a crisis that now threatens to sink the European Union's single currency.

''This is not just about the collapse of the Greek economy, it's about the unravelling of the Eurozone, Greece's bankrupty threats and the entire EU project,'' says Jeff Randall. ''I was prepared to find a country that should never have joined the Euro, where taxes can barely be collected. But what really shocked me was the scale, scope and open acceptance of corruption. Greece, it seems, has been run by a kleptocracy.''