THIS is one of the best shows I've seen about the global recession. I'm hugely biased though, having seen a fair chunk of chaos from the inside, and now clearing up after it working for the government.

(The pic is of Lehman staff hearing it's game over in the London office - 30 mins later some were either taking the short walk to the Canary Wharf tube station next door or handing out CVs in the bars over the wharf)