THE ATALANTA PAPERS
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THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 1
6 parts · 23 h 19 min
Kenya, 1959. A club opens on the equator eleven miles from the mountain, and in its first season three men of consequence each sign one thing they cannot afterward explain.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 2
6 parts · 24 h 19 min
Paris, 1960. France has just cut two noughts off its currency, fourteen African colonies are becoming countries inside a single year, and every arrangement worth making is being made in the fitting rooms of four couture houses.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 3
6 parts · 21 h 18 min
Aden, 1961.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 4
6 parts · 27 h 57 min
Brazil, 1962. The cruzeiro has four prices, the new capital has no street names, and the British commercial interest that once ran half this country's railways is being wound up by men who are embarrassed about it.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 5
6 parts · 22 h 31 min
Delhi, 1963. On the tenth of January the state makes it a crime to own gold above fourteen carats, which in a country where a woman's ornaments are her only property is not a currency measure but a confiscation.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 6
6 parts · 23 h 26 min
Beirut, 1964. There is no exchange control, the banks have been forbidden to answer questions since 1956, and gold moves through the port like sugar.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 7
6 parts · 21 h 50 min
Singapore, 1965. The oldest trade in the Strait has been a crime since two governments declared each other enemies, and the small boats go on crossing anyway.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 8
6 parts · 20 h 59 min
Rhodesia, 1966. A British mission sits in a capital whose government Britain does not recognize, with no consular powers, no representation and nothing whatever to do, while sanctions arrive in installments and the trade goes on by road, by rail and across a river that two countries share.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 9
6 parts · 22 h 17 min
Athens, 1967. On a Friday morning in April the government of a NATO ally is replaced before breakfast, and within eleven days a London firm has a signed public relations account with the men who did it. The work is not propaganda.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 10
6 parts · 25 h 3 min
Prague, 1968. An international congress is to be held in September, and a London firm holds the secretariat contract: the badges, the interpreters, the transport, the catering, the press facilities and the list of four hundred delegates.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 11
6 parts · 23 h 20 min
Iran, 1971. Four hundred guests are to be received in a tent city built in a desert, and every service required to do it — the flowers, the freight, the interpreters, the motorcades, the linen — now has a printed code and a published price.
THE ATALANTA PAPERS Book 12
6 parts · 19 h 8 min
New York, 1975. A dining club that began in 1959 with twelve men and no premises is raising a fund, and its prospectus describes, in eleven pages of neutral commercial prose, a method that requires nobody to be liked by anybody.