Robin Wigglesworth
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first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Aug
Robin Wigglesworth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean w what what did they do for fun, for an enjoyment?
What did they spend their tiny little bit of extra money on?
How well fed were some ordinary Romans then compared to somebody in the Victorian era or even today, I guess, in in some of the sort of the the poorer countries?
I mean, how do we compare this?
But you said like in Roman Britain, people did ordinary people drank wine, right?
French wines that, you know, they had a decent life.
Yeah, okay.
So so they are able to piece together a little bit of extra money or resources.
It's not affluence, but at least it is a little bit of of sort of uh non essential consumption, which is nice.
Uh but but what kind of money were they using for these things?
Because g money and credit was fairly developed in the Roman Empire, right?
Yeah, let's do the basics here, right?
Let's cause there's there's a coinage system and that's what people maybe see and we can go to a museum and see the coins, but then there's the the whole broader ecosystem of money and credit around it, right?
it's a a bron bronze coin.
It's a bronze Greek coin essentially it's the the Greek equivalent of the sisters.
Okay, yeah, well I only know the sister say from from again asterisk and ob obelix, sorry about that.
But that's right.
Uh how do they account for these things?
Were there sort of ledgers, were there the records of money going in and out?
So Barta, what often people think of as as poorer people having to do, especially in a place in a time like ancient Rome, that wasn't as prevalent as people might think.
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