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Thinking Allowed: Junk Food Traders in Secondary Schools; Darjeeling Tea Workers

22/10/2014

Junk Food Traders in Secondary Schools; Darjeeling Tea Workers

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Junk Food Traders in Secondary Schools; Darjeeling Tea Workers

Laurie explores the lives of the producers of some of the most expensive tea in the world.

Laurie Taylor explores the lives of the producers of some of the most expensive tea in the world. Also, a report on a junk food black market in some secondary schools.

Tea workers in Darjeeling. Laurie Taylor talks to Sarah Besky, Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, about her study of the tough lives of tea plantation workers, and the struggle to re-make one of the world's most expensive teas for the 21st century consumer. Also, the sociologist, Adam Fletcher, discusses an emerging underground trade in junk food at English secondary schools. Is this an unforeseen result of 'healthy food' policies?

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