Good evening. Tonight on The Money Programme, we're going to look at money. Lots of it. On film, and in the studio. Some of it in nice piles, others in lovely clanky bits of loose change. Some of it neatly counted into fat little hundreds, delicate fivers stuffed into bulging wallets, nice crisp clean checks, pert pieces of copper coinage thrust deep into trouser pockets, romantic foreign money rolling against the thigh with rough familiarity, beautiful wayward curlicued banknotes, filigreed copper plating cheek by jowl with tumbly rubbing gently against the terse leather of beautifully balanced bank books!!
Eric Idle's Monty Python Money Programme parody. Like Panorama, they never play a regular intro each week like they used to, every edition has its own intro, if 'The Money Programme' is still on the air and not replaced by other business programming
Didn't know they went away from the Jimmy Smith/Lalo Schifrin version in the late 70s. Couldn't have lasted long as I distinctly remember the JS/LS version used in the early 80s.
I've got 90,000 pounds in my pyjamas I've got 40,000 French francs in my fridge I've got lots and lots of lira Now the Deutsche Mark's getting dearer And my dollar bills would buy the Brooklyn Bridge There is nothing quite as wonderful as money There is nothing quite as beautiful as cash Some people say it's folly But I rather have the lolly With money, you can make a smash There is nothing quite as wonderful as money (money, money, money, money) There is nothing like a newly minted pound (money, money, money, money) Everyone must hanker for the butchness of a banker It's accountancy that makes the world go 'round (round, round, round) You can keep your Marxist ways For it's only just a phase 'Cause money, money, money makes the world go round
