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Happiness Podcast.

For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want

to share that science with you.

And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley.

I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that

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Hello and welcome to crowd science. I'm Marnie Chesterton and I'm enjoying a nice cup of tea with a man who knows his stuff because he grows the stuff.

Head Gardner Jonathan Jones.

It's good.

We've been out on his tea plantation.

Lush, green hillsides covered in these waste-high bushes which are thriving on the sunny weather and frequent showers.

Is this right weather for a cup of tea?

I think this is perfect weather, you know, dodging showers and there's no trouble

so great a grave that cannot be much diminished by a good cup of tea.

You can see by the Brits love it. We've just come in from the Himalayam Valley,

but we're not in the hills of China or Darjeeling.

Crowd science is on a tea plantation in the south of England.

A country known for its tea drinking skills rather than its tea growing ability.

Most of Britain is too cold to grow tea plants.

We've come to visit the exception because this is the show that answers your questions about life, the

universe, how to make a perfect cup of tea, and this week listener Ros has been

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