Tony Scotland

Tony Scotland

Tony Scotland is a British reporter, born in Buckinghamshire. He grew up in the West Indies, West Africa and the West Country. He left school at age 16 to become a reporter and four years later he moved to Australia, where he worked as a television newsman in Tasmania. Later he joined the BBC, where he was a radio news sub-editor, an arts producer and announcer on Radio 3. He also worked with Classic FM.

In 1989 he went to China, where he made an investigative report about the succession line of the Qing dynasty, the last imperial house of China, and was granted an interview with Prince Yuyan, chosen heir of the last Manchu Emperor, Puyi. In 1993 he published the results of his investigations in the book "The Empty Throne".

Tony Scotland is now a freelance writer and a broadcaster.


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