Alasdair Hutton

ALASDAIR HUTTON has been writer and narrator of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo since 1992 and has written and introduced hundreds of events and concerts in Scotland and around the world. As well as writing the history of the 15th Scottish Volunteer Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, to which he belonged for 22 years, he is the author of two books for children, The Tattoo Fox and The Tattoo Fox Makes New Friends.

He has also published an account of his 25 years writing and narrating The Royal Edinburgh Tattoo – The Greatest Show on Earth: Behind the Microphone at The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. He has worked for the bbc in Scotland and Northern Ireland and was Member of the European Parliament for the South of Scotland and Convener of Scottish Borders Council. He lives in the Scottish Borders town of Kelso.