Notes of a Newsman: Witness to a Changing Scotland

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 Scotland's Referendum.

His journey in journalism has taken him to the key events through the most dramatic decades of Scotland's peacetime history.

Using contemporary scripts, transcripts of significant interviews, diaries and recollections, he charts Scotland's transformation as a society and as a nation.