Robin Mitchell

Robin Mitchell (born 27 May 1963) is a Scottish writer and producer.

Mitchell born on 27 May 1963 in the village of Letham, Fife, Scotland. He attended Parkhill Primary School in Leven and Buckhaven High School. At Edinburgh Napier University, he studied a Higher Diploma in Hotel Catering and Institutional Management (1980–1983). In 1986, Robin passed the Scottish Tourist Guides Association (STGA) course at the University of Edinburgh.

Mitchell co-founded Edinburgh's Cadies & Witchery Tours (with Colin Macphail) in 1984 and the film production company Cadies Productions Ltd in 2004. The name 'Cadies' was taken from the 18th Century Edinburgh 'Caddies'. The Scottish actor Kevin McKidd (Grey's Anatomy, Trainspotting) worked at The Cadies and Witchery Tours in Edinburgh while studying drama at Queen Margaret University.

In May 1985, Mitchell and Macphail were Lothian Region winners of the Shell LiveWIRE Young Business Competition. He featured in the LiveWIRE magazine in 2012.

In August 1988, Mitchell bought at auction a calling card case made out of skin taken from the back of the left hand of the infamous bodysnatcher William Burke (of Burke and Hare fame). In 1997 The calling card case featured as part of the Wellcome Trust's exhibition Dr Death: Medicine at the End of Life. The calling card case for many years was loaned to the Police Information Centre in Edinburgh's Royal Mile. It is now displayed in The Cadies & Witchery Tours shop (aka The William Burke Museum) in Edinburgh's West Bow. The calling card case featured on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow in May 2007 with Michael Aspel and on the Channel 4 show Four Rooms on Wednesday 25 April 2012.

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