Maureen Beattie will be reading Radio 4's
Book of the Week,
For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose. It's a historical book about Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter and industrial spy, and his efforts to steal the closely guarded secret of tea from China in the mid-nineteenth century. Selected extracts will be broadcast every weekday morning, from 27 April to 1 May 2009, at 9.45am on
Radio 4. You can either tune in the traditional way, or listen online. You can also listen online for up to 7 days after broadcast.
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