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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Brian Cox

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

He’s most famous for his role in HBO’s Succession, playing Logan Roy, the ruthless, capitalist, pater familias at the top of media conglomerate, Waystar Royco. But the actor Brian Cox has lived on both ends of the wealth gap and his latest passion project, How the Other Half Live is a two-part television show exploring money itself. He speaks to James about his own upbringing and how it shaped him. How the Other Half Live was first broadcast on Channel 5 in November 2022 and is available to watch on the catch-up service, My5.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm currently out of office.

0:04.3

An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.

0:14.4

So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science.

0:22.4

Yours, Toby.

0:24.2

Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday.

0:29.0

Atul protected.

0:31.9

This is a global player original podcast.

0:55.9

Thank you. Global Player Original Podcast Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast designed entirely to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with people that I find fascinating.

0:58.9

And I mean, there's so much to get through with this week's guest.

1:00.1

It's hard to know where to start.

1:06.7

Let me begin by addressing all of the people who expressed disappointment when I interviewed Brian Cox the physicist.

1:10.7

Because they downloaded the podcast, expecting it to be Brian Cox the actor.

1:11.4

Oh, how old you go.

1:13.6

So thankfully, Brian Cox, the actor is now here.

1:14.8

That's a pleasure.

1:15.9

So we've done the double.

1:21.8

Brian, it's a funny one this, because we normally veer through the life and times of a guest before happening upon the latest project, if there is one, towards the end of the interview.

1:27.2

But in many ways, your latest project entails if there is one, towards the end of the interview. But in many ways,

1:28.2

your latest project entails your life and times, because it sees you go back to Dundee,

1:33.8

where you grow up after the death of your father in relative poverty and compare that with some of the

1:39.2

things you've been exposed to while portraying one of the richest men in the world, Logan Roy in succession

1:46.6

So we'll just dive in and see where it takes us it occurred to me

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