Failed “Finance Bros” Find Success with HBO’s “Industry”
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. For my money Forgive the pun.
One of the best things on television is a show about making money, making as much of it as possible. Industry on HBO is a financial drama centered on a group of junior employees at a fictional investment bank in London. Industry is currently finishing its fourth season and the show was created by Mickey Downe and Conrad Kay, two old Oxford friends, both of whom did stints in the financial world. In fact, they say if they'd been any good at finance, they probably wouldn't have created a TV show about it in the first place. Mickey Down and Conrad Kay, welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
I I have to say I'm a huge fan of this show. Conrad, d tell me how this show came about. You both worked in finance, you knew each other from from university. Yeah, I mean we we were spat out pretty unceremoniously by the financial industry. My boss, when he fired me, said I was the worst ever salesman that would graced the doors of Morgan Stanley.
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