The Tea Trail with Simon Reeve
The Tea Trail with Simon Reeve
In the first of two This World documentaries examining the stories behind the nation's favourite beverages, adventurer and broadcaster Simon Reeve looks at the production of tea. He begins in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, where most of the leaves for teabags are bought at auction, before travelling through eastern Africa to meet some of the millions of people who pick, pack and transport it. He drinks tea with everyone from Maasai cattle herders to the descendants of the original plantation owners, and hears claims of low wages and child labour
The Tea Trail with Simon Reeve airs on BBC Two Wales at 7:00 PM, Sunday 13 October. (Subtitles, repeat.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
General
Simon Reeve
Presenter
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer
Sarah Waldron
Series Producer
Adam Warner
Producer