{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61926927b481c700126c2eb2/63921a6904f1e60011f7ecdb?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"A Nation Deep In Debt: Part One","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61926927b481c700126c2eb2/1644921937661-83296c998938c08efb7ab6e9aa94a8a1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>\"Let us be, say I, a free Nation deep in Debt.. rather than a Nation of Slaves owing nothing.” So wrote a pamphleteer in 1720 about the remorseless rise of Britain's National Debt.</p><p><br></p><p>At a time of mounting concern about the public finances, we launch a two part series on the National Debt, starting with its ups and downs over two centuries with historian James Macdonald.</p><p><br></p><p>Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.</p><p>With James Macdonald.</p><p>Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p>","author_name":"Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins"}