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Like a well-spring of historical facts, bubbling over with unexpected links, Dr Sam Willis, the maitre\\u2019d of museums, and Professor James Daybell, the inspector of eons, take you on another intoxicating ride through history. From Oliver Cromwell\\u2019s Navigation Act of 1651, the American Boys Handy Book and the culture of childhood, South American colonies, and early cancer cures, (and with a little help from Lady Luck) they\\u2019ll make the links for the history of the bubble.

How did the need to halt deforestation in the early seventeenth-century spur new technological developments which allowed the British to enjoy their cider fizzy? What does the price of tulip bulbs, which in the mid-1600s reached the equivalent of a modest house, and England\\u2019s war debt in the 1700s, have to do with the bubble?

If you have a sore throat listen carefully \\u2013 for we may have a cure for that! \\u2018Fire burn and cauldron bubble\\u2026\\u2019

Dr Sam Willis - @DrSamWillis Professor James Daybell - @JamesDaybell Follow the show\'s new Twitter: @UnexpectedPod Producer - Dan Morelle

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