Love Scotland: Stories of Scotland's History and Nature
Jul 8, 2026 · 38 min · 7 segments
This summer, we’re celebrating the best of Scottish books and authors. To mark the occasion, we’re re-releasing a gem from a previous season of Love Scotland that discusses the history of an incident…
Roger HutchinsonGuest
Jackie BirdHost[upbeat music] Northwest of Scotland lie the lovely islands of the Outer Hebrides.
But in 1943, disaster overwhelmed this little island.
Not famine nor pestilence, nor Hitler's bombs, but something far worse.
There is no whiskey.
[dramatic music]
We have a very valuable cargo on board, several thousand cases of whiskey.
Anything might happen.
You, you can't trust these people.
Would it be so terrible if the people here did get a few bottles?
Once we let people take the law into their own hands, it's, it's anarchy.
[upbeat music] Northwest of Scotland lie the lovely islands of the Outer Hebrides.
But in 1943, disaster overwhelmed this little island.
Not famine nor pestilence, nor Hitler's bombs, but something far worse.
There is no whiskey.
[dramatic music]
We have a very valuable cargo on board, several thousand cases of whiskey.
Anything might happen.
You, you can't trust these people.
Would it be so terrible if the people here did get a few bottles?
Once we let people take the law into their own hands, it's, it's anarchy.
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