Bananas: Are we heading for the banana-pocalypse?
6/28/202656 min
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It's a story that spans continents and centuries, taking in corporate empires and CIA-backed coups, and it all about bananas.
Could Britain's favourite fruit be wiped out...
They're cheap, convenient and available in every supermarket, every day of the year. Most of us barely give them a second thought.
But behind the humble banana lies one of the most extraordinary stories in the modern economy, and one of the most remarkable supply chains ever created.
Ed Conway follows the fruit's journey from vast plantations in Latin America to a giant ripening warehouse outside Coventry, uncovering a hidden world of global trade, technological innovation and corporate power.
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The Stuff Matters series producer is Jake Otajovic. The production team includes assistant producer Valeria Rocca, specialist producer Aoife Yourell, and video producer Charlie Bell. Our bonus episodes are produced by Soila Apparicio. The editor is Philly Beaumont, and the commissioning editor is Paul Stanworth. Sound design and mixing by Luke Hatten. Original music for the series composed by Klong and Ed Conway.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Ed Conway· Host0:24
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Speaker 10:27
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Ed Conway· Host0:35
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