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07/05/2017

Black Monday, Concorde crash

BBC Radio 5 Live - I Was There, Black Monday, Concorde crash

Adrian Chiles revisits the 1987 stock market collapse and the day Concorde crashed.

Adrian meets two men who were on the trading floor when Â£50bn was suddenly wiped off shares in 1987. Plus an interview with a British survivor of the Concorde crash in 2000.

Adrian Chiles revisits 19 October 1987 when the world's stock market suddenly collapsed and Â£50 billion was wiped off shares overnight. Starting in Tokyo it rapidly spread to Chicago and Wall Street. Dubbed Black Monday it was one of the biggest financial crises since the Wall Street Crash in 1929. 

Adrian meets two men who were in the middle of the pandemonium on trading floor of the London Stock Exchange as the chaos unfolded. 

Peter Allen goes back to 27 July 2000 when Concorde burst into a ball of fire shortly after taking off in Paris killing 113 people on their way to New York. Hear from witnesses of the accident, including a British survivor who was staying at the Hotel Hotelissimo in Gonesse which the jet crashed into and destroyed. 

Plus interviews with the of one the men who recorded Bryan Adams' record breaking Number One single, (Everything I Do) I Do It for You and the Sunday Times journalists who reported the 'rediscovered' diaries of Adolf Hitler in 1983.

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