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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
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