Drinkers With Writing Problems
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Travel to places where drinking culture and creative legacies collide. This series reveals how the histories of beer, wine and spirits are linked to the work of trail-blazing writers. Roving on both sides of the Atlantic, a veteran journalist follows in the footsteps of a few famous scribblers – meeting cutting-edge bartenders, brewers, distillers, winemakers, novelists and booksellers along the way.

Lost in Lorca's Spain

Season 1 ends with a sojourn to the southern corners of Iberia, chasing the elusive memory of one of the greatest Spanish writers to ever take up the ...
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Los Angeles & Old Hollywood

In a place known for dark alleys, dream factories and California sunshine, there are a few bars and hotels that hold the secret to how one city captur...
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The City of New Orleans

Welcome to The City that Care Forgot, the place where an exiled teen once returned to study a spilling kaleidoscope of cocktails as he re-vamped gothi...
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Edinburgh & Islay

When a son of Scotland’s most-medieval city channeled its legacies of vice and bloodshed into popular tales, he took inspiration from the link between...
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Dublin & Belfast

In Dublin, the story of an I.R.A. insurgent-turned-writer leads to historic watering holes where the city’s oldest whiskeys flow. The man who first de...
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