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Exciting and enterprising, bloody and brutal.
Sathnam Sanghera tells the story of our national drink and its imperial past.
Punjabi cha, served from a saucepan to the whole family every morning, is the drink of Sathnam鈥檚 childhood.
But he鈥檚 also noticed that tea is a Forrest Gump-type figure, appearing at all sorts of key moments in global history.
Tea arrived in Britain as an exotic product for the elite. How and why did it then become a drink for the masses?
Empire of Tea tells the story of how Britain's national drink and its imperial background helped shape the modern world.

Produced by Paul Martin for 大象传媒 Audio Wales