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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Uh and that happened the summer of of seventeen twenty.
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And love to hear, you know
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why the bubble burst?
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Why did this euphoria suddenly get
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essentially disappear or so quickly and and things just collapse.
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Was there one thing that triggered it?
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No, and it's quite delightful that the South Sea Company itself encouraged the government to enforce this act that would inevitably or eventually contribute to its own demise or or decline.
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Well I was starting to feel a little bit desperate basically.
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to keep his baronetcy, right?
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Yes.
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Even today the the the blunt baronetcy is still exists.
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And apparently one of his descendants, I'm delighted to have learned, i is credited with bringing Morris dancing back to the UK in the twentieth century.
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So you could argue that the Blunt family has committed two horrific crimes on British society.
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Society.
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Yes.
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Well, I mean, sadly we are getting to the end of this week's episode that we do love talking bubbles.
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Uh and there is so much more to say about the South Sea bubble.
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I mean the bursing left obviously a huge uh mess in its wake.
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It took centuries to pay back some of the perpetual debt that it left.
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Uh and also we needed some to clean the mess up.
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