How did a relatively unassuming Newcastle-based building society find itself at the centre of a major international news story?
To answer that very question, Ben and Glen seek to crack the code to the once the gilded vault of Northern Rock, a bank of Premier League status that would somehow find itself relegated to the ignominious annals of financial history.
From subprime mortgages to subprime executives, join us as we negotiate an economic quagmire to uncover what exactly went wrong in 2007, and how it provided a vital lesson for the global financial community.
So please, lend us your ears, and we’ll be sure to pay you back with interest.
Useful resources:
- Building the Northern Rock, by Stephen Aris (2000)
- The Failure of Northern Rock: A Multi-Dimensional Case Study, edited by Franco Bruni and David T. Llewellyn (2009)
- Placing the Run on Northern Rock, by J. N. Marshall, A. Pike, J. S. Pollard, J. Tomaney, S. Dawley and J. Gray (2012)
- Crisis Management and an Ethic of Care: The Case of Northern Rock Bank, by Philip M. Linsley and Richard E. Slack (2013)
- Northern Rock Foundation: History and Achievements, by Fred Robinson (2015)
- “History Hour: The Collapse of Northern Rock”, BBC World Service (2017)
- “World Business Report: Remembering Northern Rock”, BBC World Service (2017)
- “The Reunion: Northern Rock”, BBC Radio 4 (2017)
