Trivia

Read ecology and biology at Edinburgh University before working in television.

After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1977, he worked in various jobs including as a park ranger in the Hermitage of Braid, Edinburgh, and as a wildlife conservation researcher in Loch Leven. He later got a job as assistant projectionist at the London Film School, before working as a freelance assistant editor from 1984 to 1989, then as a freelance editor thereafter.

The son of William Gamble, a clerk, and Ida (nee Haire), a housewife.

Attended the Model primary school, then Foyle college, before studying ecology at Edinburgh University.