My name's Willie Brown.

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

I said, Any chance you know Willie Brown?

Yesterday we heard Willie Smits talk about re foresting in Indonesia.

As a matter of fact he did know Willie Brown, and Willie Brown and Herbie and I had dinner four years ago, and we started drawing out that center on the tablecloth.

He follows Sir Gordon Richards, Doug Smith, Lester Piggott, Pat Eddery and Willie Carson.

He records a song called Blind Willie McTell, named after the blues singer, and the song is a voyage through the past, through a much darker time, but a simpler one, a time when musicians like Willie McTell had few illusions about what they did.

Indeed, Mickey Mouse himself, of course, as Steamboat Willie, is a remix of the then, very dominant, very popular Steamboat Bill by Buster Keaton.

And Willie Brown said, As sure as I'm the mayor of San Francisco, I'm going to build this thing as a legacy to the poor people of this city.

By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.