Icelandic Financial Report Takes Center Stage

from National Public Radio

A report issued by a special investigative commission of Iceland's parliament found that the county's leading politicians, bankers and regulators acted with "extreme negligence" in the lead-up to the country's 2008 economic collapse. Host Robert Siegel talks to Magnus Geir Thordarson, artistic director of the Reykjavik City Theatre, about staging a reading of the commission's 2,300-page report.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, April 13, 2010