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Revisited: A Scottish tea mystery, episode one – green shoots

Revisited: A Scottish tea mystery, episode one – green shoots

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Nicola Davis looks back on her first meeting with Tam O’Braan, who was selling Scottish-grown tea to some of the UK’s finest hotels, but something didn’t quite add up

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Science correspondent Nicola Davis investigates the strange story
of Tam O’Braan and his attempts to grow tea in Scotland. In episode
one of this mini-series first broadcast in October 2025, Nicola
looks back on her first meeting with O’Braan while working on a
feature about tea plantations in the UK. He was selling his
award-winning Scottish-grown tea to some of the UK’s finest hotels,
but something didn’t quite add up. And Nicola wasn’t the only
person taking an interest in his story. Help support our
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