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Tracing Tea in Kyrgyzstan - BBC World Service Report
Ben Tavener of the BBC Russian Service reports on the prospects, and challenges, facing the Kyrgyz tourism industry.
Duration: 7:33 (In Russian)
Producer: Ben Tavener, BBC Russian Service
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 1
A General Introduction
Duration 5:33
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 2
Early History to Alexander the Great and the Graeco Bactrian Kingdom
Duration: 9:08
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 3
The Mauryans to the Arab Invasion
Duration: 9:10
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 4
Mahmud of Ghazni
Duration: 7:41
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 5
The Timurids
Duration: 6:39
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 6
Babur
Duration: 3:57
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 7
From 1747 to 1826 - the Rise and fall of the First Great Afghan Empire
Duration: 5:22
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 8
The First and Second Afghan War and the Great Game
Duration: 10:03
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 9
Reforms - from 1901 to 1928
Duration: 3:58
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 10
From 1929 to 1973
Duration: 4:43
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 11
From 1973 to 1989 - Coups, Counter-coups and Collapse
Duration: 5:04
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
A Short History of Afghanistan by Bijan Omrani - Part 12
From 1990 to 2001 Civil War and the Taliban
Duration: 3:24
Producer: Megan Boot, Maximum Exposure Productions
When did tea arrive in London?
Sophie Ibbotson explains how the Britain's favourite beverage first reached the London.
Duration: 0:15
Narrator: Sophie Ibbotson, Maximum Exposure Productions
The Sir Robert Walpole - A Tea Ship
Tea was among other valuable commodities imported to the UK by ship.
Duration: 0:22
Narrator: Sophie Ibbotson, Maximum Exposure Productions
Tea & Waterborne Diseases
How tea made densely populated cities possible.
Duration: 0:22
Narrator: Tom Wilks, University of Cambridge
William Jardine - A Tea and Opium Trader
Before tea was grown in India, the British traded opium with China in exchange for tea.
Duration: 0:59
Narrator: Bijan Omrani, orientalist and author
