NPR feature on tea

[baroness]

My local NPR station is promoting a feature story on tea trading to air tomorrow (9-16-09) during the Morning Edition show.

It will most likely be available on their website later.

[Wholemeal Crank]

Thanks for the heads up.

[jpr54_]

I listened to the report on my local station this am-

I thought it was well done and informative

[Richard Kilgore]

The program was titled "In Kenya, Tea Auction Steeped in Tradition, Gentility".

In the cool hills high above Nairobi, Kenya, where the people live among the clouds, there are giant tea trees more than a hundred years old. They include the first tea trees ever planted in Kenya, back when it was called British East Africa.

Today, Kenya exports more black tea than any other country in the world. And as NPR's Gwen Thompkins reports, the Mombasa Tea Auction may be one of the last places on earth where Old World manners prevail.

Here's a link to the audio: click.

And here's the transcript: click.

Thanks for the find, baroness.

[CKatCook]

I heard the story today also thought it was well done. I giggled half the day at the thought of well dressed men, in properly laundered oxford shirts carrying huge spitoons.