Ep 1: Virgini-Tea! Our First Time With Tea...

A mini-episode this time as we are all busy freelancers!  However, we’re excited to bring you this bonus content - starring Gift’s mum! She sent voice notes to Gift to help her research how tea sits in Nigerian culture. It was such a beautiful and intimate experience to hear her memories of growing up in Nigeria, and to be able to find out her mum's experience too, that we wanted to share this lineage of knowledge with you*!  Please enjoy this bonus content, and many thanks again to Gift’s mum for her time, memories and knowledge! *This episode was made with the knowledge and consent of the full team and Gift’s mum.

Your British/Nigerian/Hong Konger/Jordanian/Jamaican-English hosts chat about our personal and cultural rituals with tea! We discuss the where, when and why we have tea. Reminiscing over the teahouse clubs in Jordon and how tea was used to defined class in the UK, we also talk about who Colin the Caterpillar is, why won't white people share their food and hypnotising gentrifiers.  Tea Total is hosted by Gift Ajimokun, Lizzie Reid, Layla Madanat and Christy Ku. Released every other Wednesday, 6pm.

Welcome to our pilot episode! We discuss our first experiences with tea and what led us to our first cup. Was it integrated into your life from the beginning or is it a fairly new thing for you? We also play our first Thirsty Games - we wrote down the recipes for our first cups of tea, swapped them around and tasted each other's first cuppas. The results were...interesting.