Robin Wigglesworth
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206 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Robin Wigglesworth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And me, Robin Wigglesworth.
Okay, so let's start with the ultimate brainiac, arguably, Sir Isaac Newton.
This is a guy that invented calculus.
He laid out dominant scientific theories and consensus for centuries.
He's Mr. Gravity.
He's the laws of motion.
He was even, incredibly, the master of the mint, which kind of meant that he oversaw coin production in England in the early 18th century.
He's kind of a pseudo finance minister at the time.
What a loser that guy was, really, you know.
I mean, he dreamt of following in the future footsteps of Gillian Tett, I think.
Okay, so turning to Isaac and his money, basically.
Toby, clearly Isaac Newton was a brilliant person by any definition, one of the greatest people to ever have lived.
Was he any good as an investor?
Yeah, I always thought of the South Sea Company as the OG meme stock.
It'd be definitely something that people on Reddit would be all over if it existed today.
Tell us a bit more about how Isaac Newton traded the South Sea Company then, Toby.
Let's just pause for a second.
I think we probably need to explain how we got that 1.2 billion pounds, the 300 million pounds, because obviously there are different ways of calculating what something was worth then and what it's worth now.
So if you enter 20,000 pounds, which is what it held in South Sea shares in 1720 pounds, which is when the bubble was at its worst.
Bank of England actually has a calculator you can put that in, and that works out to be around £3.6 million today, which is obviously a lot of money, but not some dynastic wealth, as we'd understand it.
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