One Life Left

Definitely the UK's favourite radio show (sort of) about videogames.


Commissioned by London’s award-winning Resonance 104.4 FM in early 2006, One Life Left was only meant to run for six episodes.

Take that, The Man because now, somewhere around one hundred and fifty episodes later, it’s in its seventh season and grown from humbling, terrified, fumbling beginnings into one of the station’s most valued shows.

Take THAT, The Man. Also take that, British radio standards.

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A question of money

When you have a question about money, who do you go to?

Dear The Bank of England,
 
Hello. How are you?
 
I don’t know much about money, but I have a money question and you seem to be a good place to go to with money questions.
 
I heard a story the other day about a man who worked for a bank and ran off with a lot of money from the bank. This bank existed only in a virtual world called EVE (it’s a videogame or something) and the money that he stole wasn’t in pounds Stirling or dollars, it was in ISK (Inter Stella Currency – I know, I had to look it up too).
 
You’re probably wondering why I’m asking you about money that doesn’t actual exist, but here’s the thing – you make money, and you probably get quite annoyed when people destroy it and take it out of circulation, because that screws things up for you. That’s what this man has done! He has taken 86 billion ISK out of circulation in EVE! And he made a joke about it! And that’s a bit like what all the bankers did who made people think there was loads of money when there wasn’t, and once people realised that there was loads less money people started calling it an economic crisis.
 
Anyway, my question is: Do you think the potential economic crisis in EVE is going to be as disastrous as the one in the real world? Do you have any tips for the people in EVE to make sure things don’t go quite as badly as they have done here?
 
Thanks for your help.
 
Keep banking!
 
Ann

I’m pretty certain they don’t have much else on at the minute, so I’m expecting a speedy response.