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- ↑ "Film tells how legendary Scottish mountaineer lost his memory". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- 1 2 Macnab, Geoffrey (2022-03-08). "Glasgow FF: Pictures from Iraq by Robbie Fraser". Business Doc Europe. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
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- ↑ "Film premiere: Photojournalist David Pratt on his return to 'troubled, tortured, tangled' Iraq". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2022-06-25.