Ben Henderson

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

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

OK, so how much are we paying for a cup of tea?

OK, that sounds enormously expensive, but I don't really know actually how much three and a half ounces is.

What is three and a half ounces in tea?

OK, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, not really.

Oh, well, now it's clear.

Prior to tree frogs these days, it's a joke.

Yeah, so ordinary people surely aren't able to access this kind of thing.

Absolutely.

Well, I found this particularly interesting.

It's often said.

Yeah, so in the tea story, this is fascinating, though, because it really demonstrates that demand for tea isn't just located among the aristocrats at the top with Catherine.

It's dispersed through society.

So pirates are bringing the tea over from Holland and Portugal because there was far lower taxes over there than there was over here.

And there's a lot of violence involved in this smuggling.

But I find it really funny.

It's not always the people you'd expect, you know, the pirates, villains in society.

There were teachers involved in the smuggling trade.

There was members of the clergy.

Yeah, there's all sorts.

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