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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In Our Time · Archive: Coffee · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Let's turn to Brazil, which at one stage was the biggest producer of is it still anyway, the biggest producer of coffee in the world, seventy percent I think of the world's coffee produced in Brazil, eighty percent of the seventy percent went to America.

Can you tell us how that happened?

what from inside Brazil or?

Given the slaves have gone, how does it produce it now?

How b how big was this trade?

I mean, compared with other trades that were going on, cotton and all the rest of it, was was this a big deal?

Judith uh who thought it how do we know that the taste of coffee, the making of coffee has changed?

Uh has it changed?

How radically has it changed?

Are we drinking the same stuff they do?

I I

So therefore we're talking about addiction if people are going to keep swallowing this, is that right?

evidence for that?

Well looks like it's good enough for Voltabia, so good enough for Balzac.

To go round the table and d how how in your view has coffee changed society?

It's a small question to ask you all, starting with you.

Um well

Thank you.

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