Tattoo Fox

ALASDAIR HUTTON has been the Voice of the Tattoo since 1992. He has been writing and telling stories for children since he was at primary school. He 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. He won a David Thomas Charitable Trust Writing Award for one of his short stories and wrote the history of the 15th Scottish Volunteer Battalion of the Parachute Regiment to which he belonged for 22 years. He worked for the BBC in Scotland and Northern Ireland and has been a Scottish 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 and writes little stories for his grand-daughter Aline who lives far away in America.