Brian Cox
speaker
1,719 appearances
13 recordings
8 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 16 Jun
Brian Cox’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I said, oh, that's kind.
And thank you for letting me be in it.
Well, you know, there's a great comedian in Scotland called Stanley Baxter, and there's a great scene which he used to do when he played a little boy, and also his grandfather's dying, and his grandfather's looking out the window and saying, "'Son, one day all this will be yours.'"
from the hills to the river and all that land out there.
And he goes on and on and on.
And the wee boy says, you know, Grandpa, that's an awfully big job for one wee boy on his own.
So that's what I was reminded of, how an awfully big job it is for one wee boy on his own.
Oh, yeah.
Well, my dad died when I was eight.
And my mom had a... He was only 51.
He had pancreatic cancer.
And he died when I was eight.
And I had three elder sisters.
I was the youngest.
And a kind of crazy brother who used to go off and disappear.
And he was nine years older than me.
And I was the baby.
And my dad died.
And then my mom had a series of...
terrible nervous breakdowns, which resulted in her having electric shock treatment, which, I mean, she lost about 60 pounds in weight.
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