Es ist wunderbar, fantastisch, brillant, wunderbar!

Herr Schlichter’s appearance on Radio Four’s ‘Start the Week’ is now available to listen to, I think for one week from today.

Yes, there’s a random idiot spoiling it, with the ‘Labour Theory of Value’ no less, who tries to explain Germany to Herr Schlichter, but it always takes a little grit in the oyster to make a pearl.

And what a pearl!

If it later goes onto a permanent podcast format somewhere, I’ll dig that out too.

• Financial Crisis: Philip Coggan, Angela Knight, Maurice Glasman and Detlev Schlichter, Radio 4, Start the Week, 16th January 2012

UPDATE: Here’s the podcast, which hopefully will be a little more permanent:

• http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/stw/stw_20120116-1153a.mp3