Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present.

As the nation's finances drown in red ink, Niall Ferguson, Will Hutton and Stephanie Flanders join Jonathan to take the long view of national debt. Amid the splendour of Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington, they compare the causes and consequences of rising debt and deficit levels from the battlefield of Waterloo to today's financial crisis. Show less