Season One

There has long been a quote attributed to President Lincoln, when he was pressed about his decision to put a potential drunkard in charge of the Union Army. Is this legend true?

At the peak of its popularity Four Roses was inexplicably removed from American shelves and remained a distant memory for almost 50 years.

Sir Ernest Shackleton attempts to trans-navigate the continent of Antarctica, only to lead his men through one of the most incredible survival adventures in mankind's history.

Two men would have their paths cross in a most unusual way - over three bottles of scotch whisky, a set of handcuffs, and a century of patient waiting.

Now, more than a century after the start of Prohibition, some of its elements still remain in the form of weird and diverse laws that govern spirits across the United States.

A remote Highland town on the edge of the Cairngorms and the spectral beast that inspired a whisky.

Normally chasing villains himself, 007 James Bond is often credited with causing the decline in whisky sales in the 70's and 80's. But is that true?

How whiskey gave America one of its first consumer protection laws.

Whisky stories, histories, and getting behind the labels

The story of two very different individuals and ways to market their whisky.