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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Dan Saladino hears from coffee industry insiders about the current spike in global prices.
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0:00.0 | Hello, it's Lucy Worsley here and we're back with a brand new series of ladies swindlers. |
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0:36.3 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
0:43.3 | If like me, you can't imagine a day without coffee, these are worrying times. We're entering uncharted territory. |
0:51.3 | Recently, international prices have been breaking all known records. Global stocks are |
0:56.6 | running low and poor harvests are predicted. Why this is happening and what it means for |
1:02.8 | coffee lovers and caffeine addicts will all be explained by coffee insiders. |
1:08.8 | I think it's very easy to use the word. by Coffee Insiders. |
1:17.1 | I think it's very, you know, easy to use the word crisis, but it is a crisis. |
1:21.0 | When it went through the $3 mark, that was pretty significant. |
1:25.3 | And then up again through the $4 mark, which it had never done before. |
1:27.1 | Quite, yeah, quite alarming. The issue is the rate of increase. |
1:30.3 | It's the speed of the rise and rapidity of that. |
1:33.3 | As we'll be hearing, a big part of this story is about crop failure |
1:37.3 | and poor harvests in key producing nations. |
1:40.3 | And what's becoming clear is that we need greater resilience and more diversity in the global supply of coffee. |
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