Murdo Macdonald, on Edinburgh Review (1984-2014) and Common Sense (1987-1999)

This is a podcast from the Scottish Magazines Network on the publishing scene at the University of Edinburgh in the 1980s, in which the relaunched Edinburgh Review and Common Sense both emerged.

SMN explains: “Professor Murdo Macdonald is our guide to the rich intellectual and social connections of this world, with the Edinburgh University Students Publication Board at its centre. Some key figures include Peter Kravitz, Jenny Turner, Richard Gunn and Duncan Mclean, and through them we encounter a very wide range of writers, thinkers, designers and artists — too many to name here, though you can gain a sense of this scene via Kravitz’s introduction to the Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Literature (1998), courtesy of Janice Galloway’s website.”

The back issues of Common Sense were digitised and can be accessed here.