I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.