Sixpence
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Sep 5, 2026
David HepworthGUEST
But anyway, it says every Friday.
David HepworthGUEST
Sixpence, 6D, half a shilling, two and a half P, I suppose, in new money, what I still regard as new money.
David HepworthGUEST
I don't know whether I would have bought this one.
David HepworthGUEST
If I hadn't bought it, I would certainly have looked at it.
Philip HensherGUEST
And he just didn't think that six pence was even worth considering.
Philip HensherGUEST
To make money out of Sixpence novels, firstly, they couldn't be very recent books.
Philip HensherGUEST
They had to have been exhausted in their first readership.
Philip HensherGUEST
The first Penguins, I think the most recent one was eight years old.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
The white elephant, tail, trunk, and tusks, all complete.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
Sixpence only.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
See the black tri-a, or camels, or ships of the Arabs.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
Heavy drinker when he gets the chance.
speaker_18VOICE_ACTOR
How much is it to pay?
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
Sixpence is the paltry charge, but we generally leaves it to the feelings of the gentry to give what they likes.
speaker_18VOICE_ACTOR
The gentry.
speaker_18VOICE_ACTOR
He takes me for missus.
6 MINS LATER
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
She's fallen in love with the images
David PurdyNARRATOR
Aside
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
Sixpence for myself.
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
This way.
Samantha BoffinHOST
Because you said cost six pence.
Samantha BoffinHOST
Did I say sixpence? Yes, you said sixpence as opposed to sixpence.
Samantha BoffinHOST
Sixpence, yeah.
Samantha BoffinHOST
Sixpence.
Samantha BoffinHOST
It was lovely, really lovely.
Samantha BoffinHOST
And what I've liked about both of the ones that you two have done is that you didn't rush anything.
KaylaHOST
What is a
TonyHOST
sixpence? Is that the thing? Like the star? Like my little sixpence.
KaylaHOST
Sixpence is a currency from back in the day, I'm pretty sure.
KaylaHOST
I
TonyHOST
was just wondering.
Devorah AllenVOICE_ACTOR
How much is it to pay?
Adrian StephensVOICE_ACTOR
Sixpence is the paltry charge, but we generally leaves it to the feelings of the gentry to give what they likes.
Devorah AllenVOICE_ACTOR
The gentry.
Devorah AllenVOICE_ACTOR
He takes me for missus.
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HeatherHOST
Sixpence.
HeatherHOST
That's what a skilled craftsman in London took home for a day's work in the early 16th century.
HeatherHOST
A carpenter, a mason, a joiner, something around sixpence.
HeatherHOST
And I've been staring at that number, you know, ever since I started reading about Tudor history, because on its own, it really doesn't tell you anything.
HeatherHOST
Sixpence out of what? Buys what? Compared to whom? So I went digging.
HeatherHOST
And if you follow that one coin, that sixpence up and down the Tudor social ladder, you end up seeing the whole society from the woman selling oysters on Billingsgate to the king who was destroying the currency to pay for a war that he was losing.
HeatherHOST
One thing first, wages and prices moved enormously across this century.
Devora AllenVOICE_ACTOR
How much is it to pay?
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
Sixpence is the paltry charge, but we generally leaves it to the feelings of the gentry to give what they likes.
Devora AllenVOICE_ACTOR
The gentry.
Devora AllenVOICE_ACTOR
He takes me for missus.
5 MINS LATER
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
She's fallen in love with the images.
David PurdyNARRATOR
Aside.
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
Sixpence for myself.
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
This way, walk forward.
Jim HedrickVOICE_ACTOR
I will now go and engage those lads.
Jim HedrickVOICE_ACTOR
Sixpence each, and well worth it.
Jim HedrickVOICE_ACTOR
Nothing like an example for the rural classes.
Joanna Michael HoytVOICE_ACTOR
classes.Goes off.
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