Steve Finan, Memories of the Last Days of Metal Printing

Steve Finan is journalist who writes regularly about language and the misunderstandings that result every time we open our mouths. His column “Oh My Word” appears in The Courier of Dundee, Scotland, and other DC Thomson publications, where he is the heritage unit editor. He's the author of several books about football—that's proper football not the American kind—including Lifted over the Turnstiles , described as "the best book about old Scottish football grounds ever published." Steve began as a printing apprentice in just under the last four years of hot-metal typesetting and relief letterpress printing at a newspaper in Scotland. He loved the sound, the smell, the pranks, the robust work of it all. He reminisces about his work in those days, and tells stories best known to printer’s devils and those who labored on the stone.

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Steve Finan, Memories of the Last Days of Metal Printing is an episode from The Tiny Typecast by Glenn Fleishman.

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This episode was published on May 17, 2021.

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