A Killing
By Mike Walker. Prior to the credit crunch, four traders launch an aggressive new hedge fund. Two of them play it straight. The other two take a huge daring risk.
A story about the excitement of making money in industrial quantities - a gladiatorial world in which only the fittest survive.
Ewen, Meredith, Tim and Harry are four, sassy, thirty-something traders who, tired of making money for others, combine to launch an aggressive new Hedge Fund.
Hopes are high for the group's philosophy is to play it straight, with minimal risk, and to remain realistic in ambition.
But impatience and a sense that others are stealing a march on them encourages two of the four, Ewen and Meredith, to break ranks and take a very big and very stupid risk.
They quickly make a massive and very noticeable profit - a fact not lost on the Regulator, nor on Tim and Harry, the other partners who are aggrieved that the entire enterprise has been compromised by their greed and arrogance.
But Ewen's obsession with Meredith, and her determination to succeed, have upset some very major players in the City. They may ride out this particular storm but there is more trouble ahead. And as an indicator of just how bad things might get, Ewen gets himself arrested.
In 'A Killing' by Mike Walker
Ewen was played by James MacPherson
Tim was Benedict Wong
Meredith ..... Laurel Lefkow
Harry ..... Nicholas Boulton
Carmody ..... Richard Howard
Angela ..... Jill Cardo
Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
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- Mon 20 Oct 2008 14:15成人快手 Radio 4
- Thu 10 Feb 2011 14:15成人快手 Radio 4
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