His father was William Duncan Fisher, an accountant, and his mother Mary McEwan Dempster.
[2] Around that year, he settled down in a hut in the moors north of the village of Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire.
[3] His radio broadcasts under the persona of the Hut Man began on the BBC Home Service in Scotland on Monday 12 January 1948 at 5.25pm.
This 'Hut Country' programme was very popular and he used his celebrity status to pioneer nature studies in Scottish schools.
[4] Fisher's broadcast career ended in 1956 when he was appointed director-secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.