David Hamilton panel
Career High: Transplantation Research with Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel Prize winner
Favourite Film: Dad's Army
Last Book Read : Alistair Moffat and James F. Wilson The Scots: A Genetic Journey
Best Trait: Giving my cash card to family for holiday 'emergencies'
Worst Trait: Buying books
Best Advice: 'If it can happen, it will'
Biggest Influence: My wife, and the late Sam Galbraith
Ideal Dinner Guests: Tom Devine, Sandy McCall Smith, Nicola Sturgeon
Advice To Younger Self: Trust your own instinct rather than the teaching of seniors: times will change.
Music: Igmar Bergman's 1975 film of Mozart's The Magic Flute - opera and sublime imagery combined
Favourite holiday: Auchrannie House Hotel, Brodick, Isle of Arran ('Auchgrannie' to the children)
Favourite pastime: Letterpress printing.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
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We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
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