Pick of the day: Victoria Wood’s Nice Cup Of Tea
9pm, BBC1
Victoria Wood travels the globe to explore Britain’s love affair with tea in a two-part special on the little plant that changed the world.
From the back streets of Calcutta to the mega-city of Shanghai, Wood reveals how the cosy cuppa united East and West, triggered wars and helped us win them.
Along the way she peeks into a fascinating world of chai wallahs, opium smokers, Assam tea pickers and grumpy elephants. What is it about tea we love so much and how did we all end up hooked?