Why did Suffolk's woollen trade began to fail in the 1620s? [audio 15min]

Richard Foster recounts stories based on old accounting documents. In the 1620s, cloth merchant Roger Cutler just about managed to keep his head above water as competition from the Low Countries cut into his export trade. The records reveal that blue was the colour of the day, and Suffolk was famous for its blue cloths. Richard Foster finds the Baltic connections alive and well as he drops into a Polish deli in Ipswich, but Suffolk ships now export rye to Europe rather than cloth, and in the local museum, curator David Jones discusses why the woollen trade began to fail in Roger Cutler's time.