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What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views. John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer-term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real savings rather than increased public spending or artificially low interest rates. Keynes's biographer, Professor Lord Skidelsky, takes on modern-day followers of Hayek in a debate.

Like an old war film? So do authors Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon, who get together with celebrity chums to watch the classics of land, sea and air to see how they stand up today. What’s still great? What’s dated? Who’s the least believable German? Find out in the new season of the podcast formerly known as A Pod Too Far.