High Tea
The price of a ilb of tea may soon double. For 13 years it was unchanged. Now wholesale tea prices have gone up from 75p a kilo to 270p in less than a year.
In The Money Programme John Roberts examines the reasons for these high prices. Who is getting the extra money? Plantation owners? Tea brokers or the big tea retailers?
Producers HELEN JENKINS , DAVID MILLS Editor PAUL ELLIS