Alice Loxton

And there's a tea room opposite and it's,

full of Jane Austen fans and it's got teacups all across the ceiling like there are teacups dangling from the ceilings and I will take you and you will enjoy it I'm sure oh fantastic looking forward to it there we go I'll hold you to that

So tea rooms are in, which is exciting.

Maybe not for Ben.

But moving on, throughout the 20th century, the love of tea continues.

And in the Second World War, it plays, again, an integral part.

So this is a good stat.

So the five purchases, the top five purchases of the government in the Second World War are bullets, artillery shells, bombs, explosives, and tea.

Mm-hmm.

Which is absolutely core to the war effort.

It's rationed, it's provided for soldiers.

What would you rather, I'd rather, yeah, yeah, I don't know.

They'd rather people be naked and drink tea than, basically.

Absolutely.

And you can see for the last 200 years, 300 years, perhaps, tea has actually been really integral to British history.

Today, it's grown all around the world, places like Africa and across Asia.

And actually, you even get tea in Britain.

There are, would you believe this, more than 50 tea growers in Scotland alone, which I don't know how they do that considering the climate, but fair play to the Scots for being excellent gardeners, I suppose.

But I suppose the big question is, what is the future of tea?

I mean, you're a coffee drinker.