Folk worth talking about

Peter’s short films about special folk [please click on each image to play a different film]

Ella Rae [you have given me a memory I’ll never forget]:

Mrs Picken [Redford Drive, Colinton]:

Tomas Tranströmer [we belong to the earth]:

Oswald Bates [Shooting the past]:

Jessie Lennox [The passing bell]:

Professor Orlando [aka Andrew Stewart]:

Gerald [Not the Nine o’clock News]:

John Stuart Mill [bald as a door-knob and dead  a century-and-a-half]:

Richard Holloway [I am not recommending this to everyone]:

Betty Mouat [COLUMBINE]:

Dr Donald Brownlie [Mengo Hospital, Kampala, Uganda]:

King Kong [the first film Peter remembers watching]:

James Clerk Maxwell [the notion]:

Félix Fénéon [invisibly famous]:

Brian Cant [Play School]:

Elijah Wood [a young actor like me]:

Mary Midgley [philosopher]:

Raymond Tallis [philosopher]:

Dr Samuel Brown [of Hades]:

Patrick Geddes [the making of the future]:

Eric Matthews [philosopher]:

Rashiebog [smuggler and astronomer]:

Humpty Dumpty [It’s just a stuffed old toy]:

John Henry Anderson [the Wizard of the North]:

A sailor’s grave [Argyll]:

Attracted to it [Mark Cousins]:

NADAR:

Richard Feynman [piddling around with a wobbling plate]:

Alexander McCall Smith [magically reaches out]:

Edwin Morgan [rare species]:

Rev I M Jolly [last Call]: