Financial Crisis

The Demise of Northern Rock with Robert Peston
10 Years After the Financial Crash with Alistair Darling
In charts: UK banking ten years after Northern Rock
Banking reform: Has enough been done? - BBC Newsnight

Great Depression

The GREAT DEPRESSION in 4 Minutes
The Great Depression - knowledge hub
Milton Friedman on the Great Depression, Bank Runs & the Federal Reserve
Questions:

What caused the great depression?

How did policy compare to the recent financial crisis?

Why did they take such a different approach?

How did this influence the size and depth of the depression?
Is the growth in living standards worse now than in the Great Depression?