Letters to Sibelius

Marshall Walker with the Big Man, Hämeenlinna, Finland.

Eric Adams, the music teacher who introduced Sibelius to the young Marshall.

The Walkers’ flat in Anniesland Cross, Glasgow.

Marshall’s mother, Nora Walker née Mitchell.

Marshall’s father, Harold Walker.

Marshall’s grandfather, John Marshall Mitchell, killed in the Arbroath rail crash.

Marshall’s grandmother, Isa Mitchell with her children: mother Nora, front centre; uncle Marshall, right.

View from the island of Lismore, Marshall’s favourite place for a holiday.

The rail carriage in which John Mitchell was killed.

Marshall’s uncle, 2nd Lieutenant John Marshall Mitchell, killed at the Salonika Front, World War I.

Margaret, Marshall’s maid in South Africa, with his daughter.

Marshall’s boyhood hero, the Scottish conductor, Ian Whyte.

Marshall Walker and Tim Dodd.

Sibelius himself.

Marshall Walker’s book Dear Sibelius – Letter from a Junky, from which the radio programmes were adapted. Published by Kennedy & Boyd (Glasgow).