Synopsis
Simon Reeve visits a Unilever tea plantation and talks to labourers about the exploitative conditions they work under.
- Programme: This World
- Episode: The Tea Trail with Simon Reeve
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Geography | Globalisation, trade and interdependence | Globalisation and global trade | Impact of global trade
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