Two Worlds The Story of an Edinburgh Doctor

Two Worlds tells the remarkable story of Arthur Philip Motley a Black American who as a young man left his home in McAlester City Oklahoma in 1928 to travel the 4351 miles across America and The Atlantic Ocean to come to Edinburgh Scotland to fulfil his dream to become a doctor. Edinburgh is the city of duality - the haunt of the doppelgänger - the home of Deacon Brodie and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - and this chronicle tells a twin tale - of Black and White - of segregation and social integration - of Dr Motley's journey and the author's journey in search of him. It's the story of a man who over the course of six decades goes on to make an astonishing community contribution within a working class area in the capital going on to become a legendary figure whose story deserves a wider audience. But like us all his was a nuanced life which at its heart contained a dark secret.