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George from Pittenweem. Posted 18 Mar 2003.
Anybody have any info on where I can obtain any of the Radio Scotland stories of Tammy Troot, this was presented by Kathleen Garscadden in Childrens Storytime in about 1947 any info greatly appreciated. | | |
|  | Donald Ritchie from Gourock. Posted 29 May 2003.
Tammy Troot may have been presented by Auntie Cyclone but the stories were read by W H D Joss. Weren't the stories written by Lavinia Derwent? Sorry I can't be of real help but thought you might be interested in the foregoing.
DMR
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| | David from Thornhill. Posted 13 Feb 2004.
The Tammy Troot stories were, as you say, written by Lavinia Derwent. I 'm sure they were published in book form, perhaps some time after the 1950s when I remember listening to them on the wireless. No idea who published them, though.
From the same era, does anyone remember the stories in rhyme of 'Bran the Cat' : "Yon queerlike animal ca'd Bran, that fears not beast, nor ghaist (?) nor man,
And roams about the countryside
From Inverness to East Kilbride..."
Also read on air by a male voice, probably WHD Joss again.
DR
I would love to get my hands on those if they stiil exist in any form.
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| | John Young from Canada. Posted 29 Jun 2004.
Were not these stories of Bran the Cat read by the author R. Gordon MacCallum? "Bran" and "Tammy Troot" alternated as the 15 minute story, before that other regular Childrens Hour feature "Down at the Mains."
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| | M. Heather Kotake from Japan. Posted 29 Oct 2004.
I have a cassete tape I bought in Edinburgh a few years ago of Willie Joss reading five of the Tammy Troot stories. I have no idea whether it is still available, but the details are as follows:
SRC 140: "Willie Joss reads Lavinia Derwent's Tammy Troot stories". Scottish Records, Solsgirth, Kirkintilloch, by Glasgow.
The questioner might also be interested in Lavinia Derwent's seven fascinating little books on her childhood and youth in the Borders, in which she describes how the characters came into being. They are probably out of print now, but can surely be found in public libraries in Scotland.
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| | Ailsa from Sydney Australia. Posted 15 Nov 2004.
I have a Tammy Troot book - it was published by Arrow Books 1982
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| | Tom Beagrie from Peterhead. Posted 11 May 2005.
I have a copy of the book, Tammy Troot. As you can see by my e-mail address which has the name tammytroot in it, I was nicknamed Tammy Troot because of my love of the stories read to me by my mother.
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| | Eileen Bell from Glasgow. Posted 13 Jan 2006.
Bran the Cat was written by Don Whyte son of Iain Whyte who conducted the BBC Scottish orchestra. Don was a reporter on the Scottish Express. He was married to Nan Caldwell, a violinist in the orchestra.
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