Merryn Somerset Webb
speaker
7,282 appearances
48 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Merryn Somerset Webb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 48 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 13.
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Thank you for having me back.
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Right, Ed, this is a story about trade.
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And we start we start with you go through three different things.
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You go through bread, you go through cloth, and you go through cars.
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And you effectively give us a a really uh well, well considered history of trade throughout the ages.
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But I'm afraid I'm going to hope that the reader will go and take care of a lot of that early stuff themselves.
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And I want us to really look at at where we are now.
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And in your life.
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The last chapter chapter on cars is where you really talk about modern day trade a lot.
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And you talk about the fact that we've moved from a world where everything is made locally to a world where everything is made regionally to a world where we we have um we think that we have free trade to a world now in which basically the entire world is a a giant supply chain, and you compare it to uh
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um the the fungal network between but uh beneath us the um how do you say it?
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The microphysal network, thank you.
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Which is um beneath us all the time and we don't see it and we don't think about it until it suddenly pops up around us.
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I bet.
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I bet.
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One of the things that that let me pick you up straight away on what you said about resilience.
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Does this make uh or does this underground network make things more resilient or less resilient?
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It's very taken by chart.
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Page three forty, for those of you who haven't got it yet.
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Page three forty, wonderful chart here.
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