In this episode of Ryan Tubridy's podcast, The Booshelf, Ryan talks with esteemed Scottish actor Brian Cox (b. 1946).

During the conversation, Brian Cox speaks of being effectively an orphan after his father died when he was 8 and his mother was hospitialised for a time. His older sisters then cared for him.

After a difficult childhood, Brian worked at the Dundee Repertory Theatre before beginning his training at the London Academmy of Music and Dramatic Art when he was 17.