Under Pressure Podcast
the real mcduck for Hamish Turin
Character Bio: Hamish Turin is a mid forties Vulcanologist and Tectonic Physicist who has never lived in one place longer than he’s lived on the station, though he spent a fair amount of time in (and intends to retire to) Hawai’i. His family hails from Scotland, and he has one sister and a niece left living. Hamish has been in a relationship exactly one time before deciding that it just wasn’t for him, but he’s close to his remaining relations.
No particular accent required; non-American accent preferred.
Reading Sample: “Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitant are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels and martyrs and holymen” and he would have meant the same thing.”
(from John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row)
In addition to the reading, we'd like for you to describe what exactly the character does aboard the Amphitrite
