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 Clips: BBC, Food.NDTV A strange brew: the case of the man behind an audacious Scottish tea fraud Continue reading...
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July 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Revisited: A Scottish tea mystery, episode one – green shoots
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