Pubcast: Not-so secret drinking dens

March 31, 2021

A conversation with my former newspaper colleague (and jazz saxophonist) Frank Morgan, based on a chat we once had in the Bon Accord pub in Glasgow. Pub licensing rules in the middle of the 20th century led to the creation of "bothans" – secret drinking dens that, it turned out, weren't all that secret at all.

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