INTERVIEW ANDREW VERITY
After six years of interviewing people about the global economic crisis, 5 Live’s Andrew Verity reveals his take on fiscal turmoil. Fellow finance journalist Liz Barclay asks the questions
It’s another fine mess we’ve got ourselves
into. According to Andrew Verity presenter of Wake Up To Money on 5 Live (5.35am – 6am) we did it through an astonishing lack of economic scepticism. And getting out of it is turning into a grand global experiment – says the man who believes in Moshi Monsters and swears by the clairvoyance skills of Nouriel Roubini. He’s into the swing of the interview before I can switch on my recording machine. Presenters rarely get asked for their own take on the issues they ask their interviewees intelligent questions about, 12 > Equiniti Magazine | summer 2012
so when they do get a chance to speak there’s no stopping them. “So many billions of pounds being lent without enough questions about the credit worthiness of the borrowers… Greece has been threatening to leave the Euro but it’s difficult at this minute to see through the fog. Wise heads said a Greek exit was inevitable but they’ve been saying that for a year. Would Angela Merkel let it happen anyway?” Andrew Verity sounds as if ‘Angela’ is someone he knows very well, which he probably does in one sense. He’s been working on Wake Up To Money (fondly known as Wot-um
Andrew photographed outside MediaCity UK, in Manchester