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Start the Week: Greece and the Eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis

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04/04/2016

Greece and the Eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Greece and the Eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis, Paul Cartledge, Karen Van Dyck, Erik Berglof and Gerard Lyons.

Cultural discussion show. Andrew Marr discusses Greece and the eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis, Erik Berglof, Gerard Lyons, Paul Cartledge and Karen Van Dyck.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses the state of the Eurozone and the politics of austerity with the economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, the Director of the Institute of Global Affairs Erik Berglof and the Mayor of London's Chief Economic Advisor, Gerard Lyons. Yanis Varoufakis tracks the problems of the Eurozone to its woeful design and its continued reliance on debt and austerity, rather than reform. The classicist Paul Cartledge explores the history of democracy back to its birthplace in Athens and traces the long slow degradation of the original Greek concept. Since the crisis in 2008 Greece has been in economic and political turmoil but there has also been a cultural renaissance. The academic Karen Van Dyck has brought together the best of contemporary Greek poetry by multi-ethnic poets in a new anthology.

Producer: Katy Hickman

Presenter: Andrew Marr.

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