The Final Word with Mervyn King

The Final Word Cricket Podcast · Apr 18, 2025 · 1h 3m

Season 18, Episode 4: Over the years, we’ve had the company of many people for whom cricket is not their day job, but none with as many letters after their name. Mervyn King’s life in economics involved teaching at some of the finest universities, going on to become the long-standing governor of the Bank of England. That term included the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, as one of the world’s most important figures in finding a way out of that shock. Now retired, he’s able to give to the game he’s loved since growing up in the 1950s, serving this year as president of MCC. In the Lord’s pavilion…