Lapsang souchong is the pronunciation in Minnan dialect for Wuyi Mountains, which is the mountain area that produces a large family of tea in South-East China). Lapsang souchong from the original source is increasingly expensive because of increasing demand for this variety of tea, as Wuyi is a small area. The story goes that the tea was created during the Qing era when the passage of armies delayed the annual drying of the tea leaves in the Wuyi Mountain. Eager to satisfy demand, the tea producers sped up the process by drying the leaves over fires made from local pines. According to
Variety in Sepia Variety in Sepia Variety in Sepia is a television Variety special that was filmed live on 7 October 1947 at the RadiOlympia Theatre, Alexandra Palace, London, and was aired on BBC TV. "Variety in Sepia" is significant to television history for several reasons: it was an early example of a television special dedicated to Black talent, it was an early example of a live television broadcast and it is one of the earliest surviving telerecordings. A six-minute fragment of the programme is all that exists and is thought to be the earliest surviving recording of a live BBC TV programme