Notes of a Newsman

As a young reporter John MacKay took the first calls on the Lockerbie Bombing. As a news anchor he conducted the final TV interviews of the Yes and No campaigns in Scotlands Referendum. His journey in journalism has taken him to the key events through the most dramatic decades of Scotlands peacetime history. Using contemporary scripts, transcripts of significant interviews, diaries and recollections, he charts Scotlands transformation as a society and as a nation.