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

And then eventually human psychology played its own role in just keeping the price going higher and higher and higher, almost without them needing to do the continuals of debt conversion ratchet operation, essentially. voice-verified

go go back to Blood, what role is he playing here now? voice-verified

What kind of tactics does he use to make sure that is allowed to kind of come almost like inflate the South Sea uh company? voice-verified

No, but it makes sense to me. voice-verified

I mean, as much as, you know, I guess John Blunt is kind of the villain in our story, uh, and and you know, he deserves a lot of the blame uh for having ramped up almost deliberately the South Sea Company's shares and and then using those shares to uh essentially co-opt and and compromise the entire British establishment in the process. voice-verified

But obviously it's voice-verified

Seemed to come at this era of financial euphoria of excitement. voice-verified

It was all new and and the future was bright. voice-verified

So you had all these kind of other crazy companies also going nuts. voice-verified

I mean, the Bank of England's shares also went nuts. voice-verified

The Bank of England, of course, was at the time a normal commercial bank. voice-verified

You had the East India Company's shares also went nuts. voice-verified

You had all these kind of new crazy companies that were going to make scale. voice-verified

Square cannonballs, flying machines. voice-verified

We're gonna plant walnut trees in Virginia. voice-verified

Uh, there's obviously that famous example of somebody satirically posting a notice uh to raise money for a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody knows what it is. voice-verified

Which is obviously almost like now, almost a famous uh expression of how. voice-verified

kind of demented things became at the peak, right? voice-verified

We know that things start going wrong, right? voice-verified

I mean we we as we know today that things inevitably crashed. voice-verified

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