Money Box Live: The King's Cash
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
To mark the Coronation of King Charles III our presenter Adam Shaw gets exclusive access to the Royal Mint to witness how new £2 commemorative coins are produced and to see its extensive archives. In this programme, we discuss how different monarchs have affected our money and what the future might hold for the physical cash that we carry in our pockets. To help explore the Crown and our currency, Adam is joined be a panel of experts, Dominic Chorney, an Ancient Coin Specialist at Baldwin's, Catherine Schenk, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford and Jennifer Adam, Curator at the Bank of England Museum.
Presenter: Adam Shaw Producer: Amber Mehmood Researcher: Jo Krasner Editor: Jess Quayle
(First broadcast 3pm, Wednesday 3rd May, 2023)
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for |
| 0:21.7 | Lucan. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fontunzelman. This is |
| 0:27.8 | the Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Welcome to the podcast of Moneybox Live, the program |
| 0:39.8 | About Your Money. One of the most significant moments in the UK's history, the coronation of King |
| 0:45.6 | Charles III, is also a big moment for our money. There are approximately 27 billion coins |
| 0:53.1 | currently circulating in the UK, bearing the effigy |
| 0:56.3 | of the Queen. |
| 0:57.6 | The majority of us have never seen anything other than her portrait on our cash. |
| 1:02.3 | But that's about to change. |
| 1:04.4 | On today's Moneybox Live, we discussed the King's Cash, the influence of the monarch, |
| 1:08.9 | on our money, and what the future holds for the physical |
| 1:11.7 | pounds and pence in our pockets. But first, what will be the impact of his majesty, King Charles |
| 1:17.6 | coronation on our coinage? Moneybox was given exclusive access to the Royal Mint and its archives |
| 1:23.8 | in Wales, one of the world's oldest coin makers to see how money is made and to delve |
| 1:29.6 | into their historic archives. Well, I have come to the Royal Mint. It was once based in the Tower |
| 1:36.8 | of London. Today it is now based near Ponticloon in Wales. I'm standing here right now. There's |
| 1:42.2 | some beautiful Welsh mountains surrounding me and here right in front of me is the Royal Mint. Just to describe what it looks like, it is a very imposing building. Lots of hard concrete. It looks very much like a bunker or an army barracks. There is a lot of barbed wire everywhere. And you might imagine why because behind these gates is a lot of money. |
| 2:06.6 | One thing which surprised me already was the most famous boss of the royal mint was that master of science, Sir Isaac Newton, who seemed to combine running the nation's currency with |
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