M&M: Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea

Dear reader,

for all of you, who enjoy to drink tea or are interested in tea, I've got this month's documentation:

"Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea" is a BBC production produced in april 2013. In this two part program Victoria Wood follows up the history of tea and why the british love tea so much. The first part is about how tea, which originally came from china, came to great britain. The british eventually wanted to be independant from the chinese. India seemed a good enough substitute, especially since india was a former british colony. But what could the british have to trade with the indian? The answer to that question surprised me a lot and I wasn't expecting it at all.

The second part deals with why tea means so much for the british. Victoria Woods speaks with construction side workers, taxi drivers, the actor Matt Smith (known as the 11th Doctor of "Doctor Who"). Tea helped the british win the war, according to some discussion partners. Towards the end of the second part of this documentary Victoria Wood asks the question, if tea has a future at all, with Starbucks and all the sorts of coffee and coffee mixes. Does tea have a future? What could be the future of tea? By the way also worth a thought why in english they talk about a "nice cup of tea" so often. Why "nice"?

Youtube has got both parts online, at least for now. Here are the links:

part 1:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOwWTFh_y9E (59 minutes)
part 2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4I47_vXBtU (58:44 minutes)

Until next blog,
sarah