Science correspondent Nicola Davies investigates the strange story of Tam O’Byrne and his attempts to grow tea in Scotland. In the third episode of this miniseries, first broadcast in October 2025, all of O’Byrne’s lies are revealed and it is revealed where he was obtaining the tea supplied to hotels and shops. During the trial,
Science correspondent Nicola Davies investigates the strange story of Tam O’Byrne and his attempts to grow tea in Scotland. In the second episode of this mini-series, first broadcast in October 2025, Nicola hears how O’Byrne’s network of Scottish tea growers began to suspect what he was actually selling and where it came from, and how
Science correspondent Nicola Davies investigates the strange story of Tam O’Byrne and his attempts to grow tea in Scotland. In the first episode of this miniseries, first broadcast in October 2025, Nicola recalls her first meeting with O’Byrne while working on a feature about tea plantations in the UK. He was selling his award-winning Scottish-made
While most people head for the Highlands, Alex Carnegie reminds us that some of the UK’s best roads can be found in the Borders… I live north of Glasgow, so to avoid traveling in or around the city, my usual bike rides take me north towards Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, or towards
mThrough the firecracker of his debut from 2020’s The Young Team, Graeme Armstrong takes the reader from protagonist Eazy’s pre-party pharmaceutical preparation, through the resulting mysterious abandonment and euphoria, and the inevitable crash back to Earth. The narrative of distressed humor is a welcome update of Kingsley Amis’s beer-soaked anxiety in Lucky Jim. All this,