This is an extract from the speech made at the presentation ceremony at London's Mansion House April 29th 2005:-
The Man Who Broke Britain was a riveting, ninety minute drama, about the derivatives market centred around the collapse of the fictional Sun First Credit Bank. Made in a documentary style, mixing news archive with drama, it was so convincing that several of the judges wondered how they had missed the news when it had first broken. The subject matter was one of the most technically difficult and obscure - even to the financially initiated - but the script never hedged its bets and attacked it with great clarity.
The film provided real insight into the workings and culture of financial institutions. Brilliant, brave and bold were words used by the judges to describe the film and its scheduling on BBC2. This is the first time a Wincott award has been given to a drama, which shows how the Wincott ambitions of “encouraging a wider understanding of economic, financial and business issues, stories and concepts” can be achieved in am imaginative and engaging way.
