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
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Do we know much about what happened there and why she went there?
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And there's a lot of research out there showing that when you invest in women in a m developing country, the impact is dramatically higher than just investing in men because they look after their children, they teach their children and they build businesses um with a great deal of um determination and often integrity too.
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And of course you now have digital platforms today which in some ways can make it easier than ever.
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Things like M PACER and Kenya, which have really transformed.
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access to finance and in financial inclusion.
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Have you ever wondered what would have happened if um
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she had had access to digital finance 'cause she could have moved things around much faster, couldn't she?
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So instead of history, it should be her story.
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Her story.
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Exactly.
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In Finance of Much Else.
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Me too.
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So thank you, Victoria, for teaching us to look at financial history afresh through new eyes.
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Um and that's it for the episode of Story of Money with me, Gillian Ted.
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Today, on the story of money, the origin story of what is perhaps the most important monetary agreement in modern history.
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And yet, ironically, it was birthed in a remote and dilapidated New England hotel with a leaky roof, broken furniture, and really bad paint job.
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Absolutely.
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But the point is it formally enshrined the US dollar as a new global reserve currency, knocking the pound out.
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And at the same time, though, the c talks were so chaotic that Britain's lead negotiators didn't even grasp this fact until he'd already signed it.
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Although he was supposed to be one of the most brilliant economists in
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