Ben Henderson

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215 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Jul

Ben Henderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And he's known as a bit of a lad, isn't he?

He famously reopens the taverns after the Puritans had tried to clamp down fun after the Civil War.

But for the purposes of this marriage, his temperament's not great, is it?

Because him and Catherine don't raise any surviving children, do they?

And he has quite a lot of illegitimate kids with various mistresses, doesn't he?

So he's not the best behaved.

Yeah, it's a pretty remarkable influence for one woman, isn't it?

She's like an early modern Alice Loxton.

Great influencer.

Oh, have you been there?

Oh, very good.

First-hand research, Alice.

I'm impressed.

Okay.

So this tea as well, this would be tea coming from China, presumably, because that's where it's produced.

And so it would have been green tea rather than the kind of black tea with milk that we'd later adopt in Britain as the centuries go by.

Fascinating.

But I'm interested to know how tea then spread from, you know, this elite circle revolving around Catherine of Braganza to wider society.

So let me know how that happened.

Ah, of twining's tea fame.

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