A Q&A with wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan

SCOTTISH wildlife cameraman, Gordon Buchanan, 42, is from Tobermory on the Isle Of Mull. His November speaking tour of Ireland includes Theatre Royal, Waterford (18); Triskel, Cork (20); and Axis Ballymun (22).

Best recent book: Jamrach’s Menagerie, by Carol Birch. It’s a great story and ticks all the boxes for me. Fiction with a great deal of historical facts and faces.

Best film you’ve seen this year: I’d like to say it was something highbrow, but really I just loved the Rise Of The Planet of the Apes. I really just want apes to take over the planet. They’d do such a better job of it than we humans do.