Brian Cox
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
British acting royalty, ‘Succession’ star and BAFTA winner Brian Cox joins us in the Dream Restaurant this week. Yep, it’s another national treasure. But does he think that dark matter is evil?
Brian Cox’s directorial debut ‘Glenrothan’ is in cinemas on Fri 17 April.
Follow Brian on Instagram @coxusa
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 16 Apr.
Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast
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And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.
Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Video production by Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Ed Gamble here from the podcast that you're currently listening to. |
| 0:03.4 | Huge news, guys. |
| 0:04.9 | My brand new stand-up tour, Fresh Hell, is on sale now. |
| 0:10.0 | Tickets are available at Edgambl.combe.uk. |
| 0:12.8 | Look at the full dates. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm going all over the UK and a bit of Ireland. |
| 0:16.4 | Come and see me in my brand new show, Fresh Hell. |
| 0:19.3 | Edgamble.com.com. UK. |
| 0:45.1 | Welcome to the off-menu podcast, taking the wine of conversation, pouring it into the blender of the internet, hitting the blend button of friendship, and pouring it into a lovely big glass of podcast, James. |
| 0:54.2 | That's a gamble. My name is James Acre. Together. We own a dream restaurant in every single week. We invite a guest and asking their favourite ever start, a main course, dessert, side dish and drink, not in that order. |
| 0:57.1 | And this week, our guest is... Our secret guest is... |
| 0:58.0 | Our secret guest is Brian Cox. |
| 1:01.0 | A returning guest. |
| 1:02.2 | No, not a returning guest, but our first, same-named guest, James. |
| 1:07.0 | Of course, we've had the scientist, Brian Cox, but he would never come back because we upset him by asking him questions about science. |
| 1:13.6 | We now have the wonderful actor, Brian Cox, James. |
| 1:16.9 | What an actor, what a career, what a man. |
| 1:18.5 | A national treasure, of course. |
| 1:19.8 | National treasure. |
| 1:21.5 | Absolutely love Brian Cox. |
| 1:23.0 | I was a fan of Brian Cox for a long time, and then he did succession and, like, went to even higher heights. The stratosphere. So quite excited and intimidated, a little bit nervous about interviewing. What characters this man has played, James? Logan Roy, of course. Logan Roy, of course. But you've got to be looking at Hannibal Lecter. Yes, you pointed you pointed out this our first... William Stryker. |
| 1:45.5 | This is our first lector, of course. |
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