BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

Lauren Laverne here.

We're taking our ease to break, so until we're back on air,

we're showcasing a few programs from our archive.

As usual, the music's been shortened for right reasons.

This week's guest is the actor Brian Cox.

I cast him away in 2020.

My cast away this week is Brian Cox.

He's one of the UK's most successful and experienced actors.

He recently celebrated his 60th year in the business

by collecting a golden globe for his tour de force performance

as billionaire patriarch Logan Roy in HBO's acclaimed series

Succession.

Lorde de Kralief for his performances on stage and screen,

he won an Olivier for his Titus Andronicus,

played King Lear at the National and has over 100 film

roles to his name, including the born identity, Brave Heart

and Manhunter, in which he played the first on screen

incarnation of Hannibal Lecter.

Perhaps fittingly, his appetite for both film and theatre

started at home in Dundee, where he grew up going

to his local picture house four times a week

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