Alice Loxton
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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
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And this was, in fact, British-controlled India in what we would now know as Darjeeling.
And that is why we have Darjeeling tea as well.
Now, it's really interesting to read about Fortune's take on the whole affair.
He wrote this book about it and he talks about it like this amazing adventure.
He was the first to see these secrets.
He wrote, I often look back upon those days with feelings of unalloyed pleasure.
And of course, the interesting thing is he might have had a great time, but for China, they see this very, very differently.
Yeah, absolutely.
And the point is, he's seriously unpopular in China today.
They view him as this terrible figure.
They see it as trickery.
He single-handedly kneecapped the economy.
And it's part of that great century of humiliation, which they still talk about today.
And they call it the Great Tea Heist.
That's how it's remembered.
Absolutely.
So it's quite a big change at this point.
They've exploited opium and employed some pretty brutal military tactics.
There's been a sprinkling of espionage and all of this broke China's monopoly on tea production and began to satisfy this raging demand for tea in Britain.
Chapter three, look for the bare necessities.
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