Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries
By James Harper
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Coffee stories with an extra shot of history and science. Filter Stories is a podcast revealing coffee’s hidden microscopic secrets, its powerful past, and how your choice of beans impacts tens of millions of people.
See the behind-the-scenes stories on Instagram @filterstoriespodcast.
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Farming: Starved soils and vanishing labour
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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Farming: Water crisis, risky genetics and cash flow crunch
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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Farming: Low harvests and profit blind spots
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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History: Guatemala's Inconvenient Truth, Pt 2
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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History: Guatemala's Inconvenient Truth, Pt 1
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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History: Surrogates - Anything but the coffee
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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History: Ethiopia's wild coffee forests
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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History: Hamburg and Europe's coffee trade
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Introducing: Series Three of A History of Coffee
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Science: Coffee Quality, Pt 3 - When the “quality” myth hits the farm
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Science: Coffee Quality, Pt 2 - How “quality” became a myth
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Science: Coffee Quality, Pt 1 - The birth of specialty coffee flavours
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Science: How specialty coffee woke up to water’s role in flavour
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Science: Why prehistoric rock ruins coffee
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Science: Water, Pt 2 - How to measure and treat it
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Science: Water, Pt 1 - Alkalinity, hardness and why it matters
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Science: Farm to port - why specialty costs more
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Science: Why one Colombian farmer chose specialty, and the other walked away
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Science: The hard business of selling beautiful coffee, Pt 2
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May 19, 2025 |
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Science: The hard business of selling beautiful coffee, Pt 1
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May 19, 2025 |
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Science: How to roast more coffee, faster!
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Science: The chemistry of coffee roasting
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Science: Fruit juice or creamy almonds? Your guide to controlling cold brew flavors
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Science: Hot vs Cold - The science behind temperature and taste
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Introducing: Season 3 of The Science of Coffee
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Science: How grinders work deep inside
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May 06, 2024 |
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Science: Protecting your coffee’s flavours
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Science: How to think like a scientist
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Science: How to brew coffee like a scientist
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Science: Why don’t we see more organic coffee farms?
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Science: The magic of soil
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Science: Roasting made easy
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Science: How roasting transforms coffee beans
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Science: Do you and I taste the same flavours?
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Science: How to be a better coffee taster
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Introducing: Season 2 of The Science of Coffee
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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History: America’s love affair with coffee
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May 29, 2023 |
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History: Italy’s democratic espresso culture
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May 15, 2023 |
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History: Haiti, Colonialism and Coffee
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May 01, 2023 |
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History: How coffee houses changed the world
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Introducing: Series Two of A History of Coffee
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Science: Sonic Seasoning
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Science: Latte Foam
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Science: Espresso Technology
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Science: Plant Genetics
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Science: Coffee Extraction
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Science: Water For Brewing Coffee
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Introducing: The Science of Coffee
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Coffee’s Ticking Time Bomb
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Is really expensive coffee really worth it?
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Coffee Cycle Saturdays
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May 27, 2021 |
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History 6: The Future of Coffee?
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May 13, 2021 |
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History 5: Desperately Seeking Sustainability
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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History 4: A Dark Bitter Powder
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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History 3: Coffee Catches Fire
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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History 2: Slavery, Suffering and Affordable Luxury
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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History 1: A Five Gun Salute to the Origins of Coffee
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Introducing: A History of Coffee
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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A Girl on a Coffee Farm
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May 24, 2020 |
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Be careful what you dream (it may come true)
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Why El Salvador isn’t bringing back coffee
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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A Eulogy for Tito
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Is your coffee building Trump’s wall? Part 5: How can we support marginalised coffee producers?
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Is your coffee building Trump’s Wall? Part 4: The Rich and the Marginalised
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Is your coffee building Trump’s wall? Part 3: Requiem for a Coffee Republic
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Is your coffee building Trump’s wall? Part 2: El Savage
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Is your coffee building Trump’s wall? Part 1: A tale of two El Salvadors
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Big and Small in El Salvador: Part 3
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Big and Small in El Salvador: Part 2
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Big and Small in El Salvador: Part 1
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Unseen Bean: Part 2
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Unseen Bean: Part 1
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Venezuela
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May 14, 2019 |
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Stateless
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Sofía
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Mar 10, 2019 |
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Aquiares
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Tito, the Panamanian rebel
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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Amish
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Berries and Lemon
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Firefly
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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Asheville
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Aug 16, 2018 |