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 · The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

But, you know, this is also a personal story for you because you know, like I said, you were born in Albania. voice-verified

I mean, a multicoloured Adidas jacket sounds like a far better signifier of Western influence than David Hasselhoff uh blaze blazing out over the wall. voice-verified

But let's let's go back to 1990. voice-verified

So, yeah, Enver Hoxha is the dictator that, like, even for behind the Iron Curtain, that was a fairly unusually insular, brutal dictatorship. voice-verified

And and almost more similar to North. voice-verified

Korea than like a a Poland, right? voice-verified

Oh wow, okay. voice-verified

So yeah, I'm not the guy to keep friends, unfortunately. voice-verified

So in nineteen ninety, for Albania it must have been just an enormous shock, right? voice-verified

Going from you know isolation even in Eastern Europe to suddenly the world changing. voice-verified

It's kind of like them aliens landing. voice-verified

I don't know. voice-verified

Yes, because I'm a massive nerd about these things, I did actually look up some of the numbers in the IMF's World Economic Outlook database. voice-verified

I saw the IMF estimated that that immediate shock after the wall fell and the country opened up was around 30% of GDP. voice-verified

I mean, that's sort of US in Great Depression levels. voice-verified

But but then they realized, right, that they had to do something. voice-verified

Then the new government, the authorities in Albania realized. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Well we have to get something to get the country going again. voice-verified

So w what what happened? voice-verified

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