Melvyn Bragg
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1,061 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3d ago
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Then and I think that that is essential.
I don't think we should skip that at all.
If we do skip that then we're not then if you do, then we're not doing program with academics.
I mean that's that's part of the point.
It means you can't bring in Tina Turner.
Because I agree to post all those people I would mention
Turner.
Yeah, I
Disappointment everywhere.
sixteen fifty two the first coffee house opened in London, not so much a house as a shed, selling to passers by.
The taste, it's thought, was unspeakable.
But people liked the effect it had, both on them and on all those around them in these new coffee houses.
They were more talkative, brighter, awake for longer, and sharing news and ideas.
It changed society.
And coffee growing spread across the world's colonies too, to meet European and American demand, changing lives from Java to Brazil, calling for more and more slaves to tend the crop.
With me to discuss the history of coffee at Jonathan Morris, Professor in Modern History at the University of Hertfordshire, Markman Ellis, Professor of eighteenth century studies at Queen Mary University of London.
And Judith Hawley, Professor of eighteenth century literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Curious, how did coffee become a drink, according to legend first?
And then how did it spread?
Let's let's take the legend for granted and and rest on it because it's as good an explanation as we can get, isn't it?
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