{"id":3281,"date":"2024-06-16T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:59:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:59:03","slug":"whisky-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/06\/16\/whisky-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Whisky Galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/whisky-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3282\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16 June marks the 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the UK release of Ealing comedy \u2018Whisky Galore\u2019. Starring Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice and Gordon Jackson, among others and based on a true event \u2013 the running aground of the SS Politican, it tells the story of a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, whose inhabitants have run out of whisky because of\u00a0wartime rationing. The islanders find out the ship is carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, some of which they salvage, against the opposition of the local\u00a0customs and excise men.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/whisky-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/whisky-3.jpg 318w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/whisky-3-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 85vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 June marks the 75th anniversary of the UK release of Ealing comedy \u2018Whisky Galore\u2019. Starring Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice and Gordon Jackson, among others and based on a true event \u2013 the running aground of the SS Politican, it tells the story of a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, whose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/06\/16\/whisky-galore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whisky Galore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3285,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}