Behind the Money
Hosted by Robin Wigglesworth and Gillian Tett · Financial Times
4.6from 713 ratings
- 349
- Episodes
- 165
- Transcribed
- 713
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Behind the Money
FT columnist Gillian Tett and FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth dig into the ideas, personalities and institutions that have shaped the history of finance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Financial Times
- Category
- education · history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Apr 2018
- Latest episode
- 4 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
165 of 349 episodes have a transcript.
4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
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France’s colonial battle to control African money
Published 4 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So that's really interesting because a lot of people might wonder why on earth the French did this after World War II, given that they were essentially facing an economy in ruins and they'd been humiliated by the war and they had plenty of other things to focus on back at home in terms of reconstruction. […]
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- Ndongo Samba Sylla
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- Rebecca Spang
- Dan Davies
- Greg Steinmetz
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 229 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 484 ratings
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- 73
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Behind the Money?
Robin Wigglesworth and Gillian Tett host the show. Published by Financial Times.
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