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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So they have this, at least potentially lucrative, if unsavory, monopoly on slave trade with Latin America.
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But the reality is that, as Tom said, they weren't very good at this, and it wasn't super valuable.
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And the shear price doesn't really take off, it's kind of just bobbing along.
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And that's why I think it's so interesting that it were many years before the South Sea Company, the shear, became kind of the mega famous bubble that we know of.
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Um, John Blunt, of course, is getting richer.
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Uh, and Tom, I'd love to hear what happens next after this peace treaty, and after essentially the company.
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company is kind of in operation and and John Blunt is on manoeuvres, but
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it hasn't quite taken off yet.
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How does we get to that point?
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Whigs come back to power.
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Welcome back to the show, everybody.
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So it's the beginning of 1720.
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Oh, we're gonna get into the action now.
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The South Sea Company has been authorized to carry out an enormous new debt conversion, and this time it covers virtually all of the British government's outstanding debts.
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It's around thirty million pounds worth.
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And things are about to get a little bit crazy.
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huge, right?
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It was just far bigger than the previous one as well.
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So essentially they could use the conversion price to continually ratchet the price higher and higher.
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That would make people wealthy or seemingly wealthy.
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