247. Victorian Narcos: Tea Starts A Drug War (Ep 1)
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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnan and me, William DeRaport. Now we're starting a new series for you and actually it's Got a great title. It was a working title, but I think we should just slap it on the whole thing. Victorian Narcos.
Has that got your attention yet? I like it. It's a good one, isn't it? But this is a story that really has enormous geopolitical ramifications even to this day. So it involves things that get you high, frankly.
Opium, yes, and if you are of a more staid lifestyle like me, cups of tea. But these things are entwined inextricably in one of the most dramatic periods. in history. It's a very, very odd story. It's a story of how the British went to war for the right to sell drugs.
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