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[00:02.02]To get a better idea of how primitive moneylending works, you don't need to travel back in time
[00:08.07]There are plenty of modern-day Shylocks remarkably close to home
[00:12.79]And they don't need to be Jewish to suffer a similar fate to Shylock
[00:34.91]This is Shettleston in the east end of Glasgow
[00:38.22]It's actually where my grandmother used to live
[00:40.77]And I think with its distinctive steel shuttering, it's one of the grimmest places in the whole of western Europe
[00:47.70]In fact, average male life expectancy here is just 64, which is slightly worse than Bangladesh
[00:53.55]That means that the average Shettlestonian doesn't actually live long enough to collect his state pension
[00:59.27]You might think nobody would be mad enough to try and provide financial services here
[01:04.62]But someone does
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