As both industry group the Scotch Whisky Association and its radical critics, like Donnie Blair, will have found it equally irritating, Agenda considers Scotched Earth, BBC Scotland's documentary on our best-known export (still on iPlayer), to have got it pretty much right.
Presenter Douglas Fraser did a great job, not only of conveying the scale and variety of Scotch production, but also of teasing out some of the industry's financial paradoxes. Most notable was Professor John Kay's point that its economic benefits to the country are nothing like as great as are often claimed – an opinion we reported last February.
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