Robin Wigglesworth

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1,983 appearances 13 recordings 1 series 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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The Story of Money · South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

So it's 1710. voice-verified

Tories are back in power and they want to make their mark. voice-verified

Uh they have this unruly pile of debts they want to uh deal with. voice-verified

Uh Robert Harley, the the Lord High Treasurer, turns to John Blunt, wants him to do something essentially. voice-verified

Can you walk us through the situation? voice-verified

South Sea Company, how it was set up, what was the plan? voice-verified

To me. voice-verified

I mean, I mean it's kind of easy to dismiss as financial engineering, but does actually sound like a genuine win-win-win in that, you know, you it's an option. voice-verified

Uh you can exchange uh a piece of highly liquid a loan basically to the the UK government, it's a hodgepodge of it, for something uh more homogenous, a homogenous stock of tradable uh stock that pays a dividend. voice-verified

That kind of walks, talks, and quacks a little bit like an interest payment as well. voice-verified

But you have liquidity and you have that kind of option on the and maybe at some point there'll be peace and and this company will enjoy this of the trade bonanza to the West, albeit with slaves. voice-verified

Let's not gloss it over, as the East India Company had on the eastern side of the hemisphere. voice-verified

So I kind of see I could see why this was actually a really smart idea. voice-verified

It was. voice-verified

It voice-verified

Well, I mean defense of blood, I think this sounds uh far more credible, slavery aside, than the than than Elon Musk kind of called voice-verified

Details, Schmittels, we don't care about those kind of things. voice-verified

You need the vision to see voice-verified

The Radi Company was formed by 1711 formally. voice-verified

And as Tom mentioned, you had this peace treaty with Spain, and that this war finally subsides. voice-verified

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