Gillian Tett

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1,226 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2 Sep

Gillian Tett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Story of Money · The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor · 27 May 2026 podcast

So here we have Priscilla writing all her books about botany and things like that and becoming essentially a best selling author. voice-verified

Earning lots of money. voice-verified

And then she runs into the same problem as working class women and in fact women of all types, which is that she doesn't know where to put it. voice-verified

So what happens next? voice-verified

So that's really quite extraordinary. voice-verified

Um and in practical terms, was it just one bank and was it just run by women, for women? voice-verified

Um, or was it a sort of bank that was part of a wider system? voice-verified

That's not bad. voice-verified

That's a pretty good rate, um, by modern day standards. voice-verified

Um but I'm curious, I mean, first of all, were they w literally carrying around bags of cash? voice-verified

Was that what was going on? voice-verified

And um how does she keep the bank afloat if she was paying out five percent of interest? voice-verified

Well, it sounds like a lesson in financial literacy that if you start socking away small amounts of money early on voice-verified

then gradually over time it begins to grow big. voice-verified

But was this business big you know, able to actually give her a wage or a living? voice-verified

I mean did she end up becoming a full time banker instead of being an author as her main source of income? voice-verified

So it sounds an awful lot like the kind of programmes or mantra you see around things like Grameen or World Bank development programmes today, where you're trying to give women voice-verified

financial inclusion and out of that the hope that they will then be able to lift themselves out of poverty and grow. voice-verified

That's basically, you know, financial occlusion at work. voice-verified

And in fact it was so successful as I understand it, that although the bank was set up for women, men started to ask if they could join it too, didn't they? voice-verified

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