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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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George Orwell described tea as “one of the mainstays of civilization in this country.” But how did this foreign plant become so British? Sathnam Sanghera speaks to Orwell expert Jean Seaton, cultural historian Kate Teltscher, and ramblers with flasks of tea in the Peak District, to try and figure out how and why tea became a national obsession.
Produced by Paul Martin for BBC Audio Wales
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0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm sat and I'm sangerra the host of radio series |
0:47.2 | Empire of T. It's about all the fascinating ways in which the history of British Empire |
0:52.1 | intersected with the history of T. |
0:54.4 | To listen to all the episodes just searchuse into it and then you've got to bring it to a boil and then let it simmer. |
1:12.0 | But even that simmering period has a fine cut-off point, doesn't it? |
1:16.0 | Yeah, I feel like a matter of minutes and it's overdone or under-done. |
1:20.0 | You can't rush the process. |
1:22.0 | The best place for me to begin this series about the imperial history of tea |
1:26.0 | is probably my childhood. |
1:28.0 | Tea, in its Indian form, is incredibly nostalgic for me. |
1:32.0 | My nieces, similar in Jasazveen, have come around, |
1:34.4 | and we're in the kitchen, reminiscing. |
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