Summary: Callum lived in the North East of England for 40 years. His interests in Tibetan Buddhism took him to the Kagye Samye-Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre, a Buddhist complex associated with the Karma Kagyu School at Eskdalemiur, Dumfries, Scotland where under the patronage of a lama teacher he spent time studying the ways of eastern psychology, meeting with the Dalai lama in 1994. During the seventies and eighties he was a contributor, researcher and writer for several programmes for his local television broadcaster Tyne Tees Television. In 1979 Callum was allied to the innovative Newcastle local music scene and assisted in the birth of the national British adult spoof satirical VIZ Comic, a regular inspiration for some of its characters. As regional rock music journalist and contributor to the magazines of the day, Callum featured as a presenter and interviewer on BBC Newcastle radio rock show Bedrock. Involving himself actively in the music industry, he has recorded a number of surreal comedy songs under various guises and had a minor hit in 1980, until deciding to concentrate on television comedy. From 1982-1987 he featured on the Channel 4 live music programme THE TUBE with a variety of surreal comedy characters earning him a cult following still in existence today, and extensive inclusion on the 2005 Granada TV DVD compilation The Best of the Tube – Series I. He has appeared on national television over sixty times. Callum has contributed to paranormal and esoteric magazines and he is known on the Internet for his articles, features and Youtube videos under his pseudonym as Dan Green and his book The Lincoln Da Vinci Code (2005) and sequel The Lincoln Da Vinci Code (2006), which he has talked about on SKY television. Callum’s first DVD, The murder of Mary Magdalene; Genocide of the Holy Bloodline, is now on national release. In 2009 he was a contributing author to the book The Ancient Code and in 2010 has contributed to the book The Templar Papers.
