What actually is money? This new podcast from the Financial Times takes a historical view of this question which is crucial to understanding human civilisation and the world we live in today.

Robin Wigglesworth, who co-hosts the show with fellow FT journalist Gillian Tett, picks some of his favourite episodes so far and tells us why some of the greatest humans ever - Churchill? Newton? - were not always brilliant with money.

The Story of Money:

* Pick of the Pods: https://pickofthepods.substack.com/publish/post/201028489

* Homepage: https://www.ft.com/tsom?shareType=nongift&syn-25a6b1a6=1

* Get it on any podcast app: https://pod.link/1376303362

* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FTTheStoryOfMoney

Episodes of The Story of Money featured on this episode of POP-The Podcast:

* The Bretton Woods agreement: a tale of boozing, womanising, espionage and a heart attack

* The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war

* They are history’s geniuses. But were they any good at investing?

Robin’s Pod Picks:

* The Rest Is History https://pod.link/1537788786

* Greeking Out https://pod.link/1483233279

Robin’s dream interview:

* Jay Cooke (1821–1905) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cooke

Robin’s forthcoming book:

* A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/461949/a-fabulous-debt-by-wigglesworth-robin/9780241705674

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