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Episode 1

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Last broadcast on Tue, 28 Apr 2009, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

By Sarah Rose. In 1848, the East India Company engages a Scottish plant hunter to infiltrate deep into the interior of China to steal the lucrative secrets of tea. Read by Maureen Beattie.

A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.

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  1. Mon 27 Apr 2009
    09:45
  2. Tue 28 Apr 2009
    00:30

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