Alice Loxton

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770 appearances 11 recordings 7 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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You're Dead to Me · Why do British people love tea? (from Here For The History) · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

Some of it's really weird, some of it's quite dark, and some of it's just hilarious.

So I can't wait to reveal it all.

Well, the first thing that I have every morning is a cup of tea, as I did this morning.

And I'll get out of bed, try and wake up.

And the first thing I do is put the kettle on.

I'll have an English breakfast tea.

I've got a special mug.

It's from the Durham Cathedral Gift

shop which I bought a few years ago and I'll have I'd say a dash of milk semi-skim milk and it normally ends up being the colour of a digestive biscuit so I'm very particular about that but if I get it right it does set me up for a perfect day what about you how much milk do you have

A fellow tea obsessive.

I love it.

Your mother and I would get on, no doubt.

I know.

People have such strong feelings about it, myself included.

And perhaps you deserve that contempt.

But it is a big part of the British identity.

And actually, the anthropologist Kate Fox has written about this in her book, Watching the English.

She said that whenever the English feel awkward or uncomfortable in a social situation, that is almost all the time, they make tea.

So totally relatable.

Right, yeah.

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