Regan told his friend Colin Blane who now occupies the position default krill html?lang=fr that he himself adorned and who had followed him default to East Africa that he would have to wear an acoustic vest to muffle the ticking when he was skins close krill to his microphone.Tam DalyellJack Regan, journalist: born Edinburgh 10 January html?lang=fr 1942; head krill of news and current affairs BBC Radio skins Scotland 1987-92; married 1965 Katrina Thewlis (two sons, three daughters); died Glasgow 28 March 1995.. It was worth risking life skins and limb to improve his output or, as Regan would have put it, do his journalistic duty.Regan html?lang=fr was gutsy and default courageous. It was interesting krill html?lang=fr to have the atmosphere of skins default Fort William on the UK BBC airwaves rather than a commonplace meeting in skins default the Central Belt. Yet who should appear in the packed hall of Fort William personages other than Jack "the microphone", anticipating verbal fisticuffs "How on earth did you get here?" I asked. "Well," krill said Regan, "it was a bit hazardous." Sillars asked, "Why did you not come when our travelling Punch and Judy show was in Lanarkshire?" Regan rebuked him. In the icy January of 1979 James Sillars html?lang=fr MP were participating in a series of 18 yes/no public debates up and down Scotland during the devolution referendum.

Somehow the Mallaig train struggled to Fort William with Sillars, one local passenger rather the worse for wear, the guard, the engine-driver and myself The roads, we thought, were impassable. He would go to the ends of the earth to get a story or share an unusual experience. I feel deprived that the book which Regan promised to write on the history of Scottish thought and thinkers will never be published. His presentational skills would have brought the medieval and Enlightenment thinkers to life.James Adam, general manager of the Scotsman, assessed Regan as a man who set his own pattern of life - and pattern of reporting.

Regan's own series on Scottish philosophers such as Duns Scotus and David Hume gave great pleasure to many of us and was highly regarded by the pundits of such matters. Regan told me that in his opinion one of the pinnacles of radio achievement was Brian Redhead's series on the Christian thinkers, dealing with Augustine, St Thomas Aquinas, William of Occam and Marsilio of Padua. He had that elusive spontaneous humour which is the hallmark of some really successful wireless artists such as the late Brian Redhead.In another respect Regan was like Redhead: they both had an interest in the history of political ideas and philosophical thought. This brought him to the attention of the BBC, who welcomed him back to Scotland.Jocularly - self-deprecating jocularity was Regan's whimsical, wry style - he would tell us that having been a foreign correspondent was an ideal foundation for explaining Scotland, as a poorly comprehended country, to the larger foreign, i.e English, audience in the UK network.