A LECTURE honouring East Lothian's former MP will be delivered by a BBC correspondent.

Allan Little will give the 2024 John P. Mackintosh Memorial Lecture at the University of Edinburgh on Monday.

The title of the lecture, which will be held in the Playfair Library, South Bridge, will be Democracy Under Siege: The Challenges of Disenchantment.

Doors open at 5.30pm, with the lecture beginning at 6pm.

Admission is free and for more information, go to eventbrite.co.uk or www.jpmackintosh.ed.ac.uk

The John P. Mackintosh Memorial Lecture, organised by a joint University of Edinburgh and East Lothian lecture committee, is held in honour of the famous former Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, who served from 1966 to 1974, then, after briefly losing his seat, was re-elected later that year and continued in post until his death in 1978.

Mr Little joined BBC Scotland as a researcher in 1983 and spent most of his career there as a foreign affairs correspondent.

He covered the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the Gulf War in Iraq, the break-up of the former Yugoslavia and the presidency of Nelson Mandela.

He was the BBC’s Special Correspondent based in London from 2003 to 2013 and covered the 2014 independence referendum in Scotland.

Mr Little rejoined the BBC in 2016 as a part-time special correspondent and is now also chair of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

A leading academic and writer, John Mackintosh was professor of politics at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Strathclyde and an early champion of devolution.

He died in office in 1978, aged 48.

The prestigious memorial lecture, which alternates between venues in Edinburgh and East Lothian, was first delivered in 1980.

It has since provided a platform for many prominent public figures from Scottish and UK politics and the wider international stage.