Brian Pendreigh's Film, TV and Books tour

"Brian was better than the best" Ravati Sukumar, August 2924

Visit some of Old Edinburgh's most amazing locations and hear their history and how they were used in Oscar-winning movies and in blockbusters like Avengers - Infinity War. Learn about links with best-selling authors from Charles Dickens and Daniel Defoe to Arthur Conan Doyle and JK Rowling. I run this tour only occasionally. This is a rare chance to get the inside story of Edinburgh, and its literary and cinematic heritage, from an award-winning film critic and author, born and bred in Edinburgh... 

• Hear how a meeting I had with an American tourist took me to the Oscars and changed my life.
• Visit the scenic location of "The Kiss" in the Netflix hit One Day.
• Compare the size of your handprints with those of JK Rowling.
• Walk the same historic streets that were trod by a famous author who came here as a secret agent 300 years ago.
• Learn about Edinburgh's link with Marvel superheroes and The Wizard of Oz and why Fast and Furious was not really quite so fast or furious. 
• Discover the link between James Bond and Sean Connery that goes back to school days.
• Follow in the footsteps of Julia Roberts when she set a world record with a $10 million fee for a movie no one has heard of.
• Visit Scrooge's cemetery and hear why Dickens got it all wrong.
• Find out why the grave of a sea captain who died in obscurity 200 years ago is now visited by dozens of people every day. 
• Hear about the cute little dog who received the city's highest honour, had two statues erected in his honour and inspired a hit Disney movie.
• Discover the truth behind Jekyll and Hyde.. and Sherlock Holmes... Conan Doyle, Stevenson, Scott and Burns.
• This is me on TV talking about the One Day locations https://we.tl/t-oQTSgSn956