Andrew Marr, when business and political reporter with The Scotsman newspaper in September 1988.

Tonight on BBC Two Scotland you can watch a documentary at 9pm called The Paper Thistle telling the full story of the last 200 hundred years at the national newspaper.

It will feature household names like BBC broadcasters Andrew Marr and James Naughtie as well as Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator and award-winning sports writer Hugh McIlvanney.

They relive their time in The Scotsman newsroom over the history of the paper showing how journalism has evolved.

This documentary is the launch of birthday celebrations at the paper.

Writer and broadcaster James Naughtie (Jim Naughtie), at the time a Scotsman Publications journalist, won the Scottish Press Awards Writer of the Year trophy in May 1983. Jim receives his award from Alastair Dunnett, former editor of The Scotsman newspaper.

 

Picture Shows: Andrew Marr in Edinburgh to launch ‘Crowded With Genius – How Scotland Invented The Modern Mind’, Andrew Marr in Edinburgh investigates an extraordinary period in the 18th century when one of the poorest countries in Europe was taking the lead in intellectual life, turning concepts of society, religion and deference on their head and laying the mental foundations for the modern world. 

 

The Scotsman reporters room, 1948
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