Health Drinks: Kombucha
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Does kombucha boost your immune system? Greg Foot is joined by Blur’s Alex James and experts to put this fermented wonder drink to the test.
Presenter: Greg Foot Producer: Marijke Peters
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder. |
| 0:23.2 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, |
| 0:25.3 | and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, |
| 0:29.3 | go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe. |
| 0:34.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to The Best Things Since Slice Bread, a podcast from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm Greg Foote and I'm on a bunk-busting mission to uncover the facts behind the fads. |
| 0:50.8 | This series is all about investigating if the latest wonder product or social media craze |
| 0:55.1 | will revolutionise your life, or is it all marketing BS? Today we're looking at the drink |
| 1:01.1 | du jour kombucha, the so-called elixir of life. And joining me to run it through the evidence mill |
| 1:06.4 | is Blurbassist turned cheese enthusiast Alex James, Alex, welcome to the show. |
| 1:11.7 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:12.7 | Very lovely to be here. |
| 1:14.5 | Where did your passion for cheese come from? |
| 1:16.1 | And then how did you turn it into a business? |
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