do this. now. you felt. each. blood and touched the crew. is that worth. a huge break in the international blockbuster of brave and you played the robert the bruce was asked to come in for the english prince and it and i said the cost of the right to pat's pork said not how are you going to play robert the bruce but you

can't because it's been offered to a movie star so forget about that coming to meet mel and talk about this role so what did i do i went in i had no work for 9 months. and i and he said so you want to talk about this wall of the industry i said no i'm not here to talk about that. talk about robert the bruce you told me you could have been edward the 2nd yes. that's correct and i was in there for an hour and a half and he was like look at me go and look at the casting director like why is he talking about this and he said so ok well it was great to meet you you know want to talk about the other guy i said no i'm good good luck with the movie and i left and kicked myself for days afterwards and i haven't worked for 9 months woman doing but i got a phone call 10 days later and i was asked to come back to see him i was and i sort of a done now i'm something wrong you know and turned out that the actor who'd been offered the role was trying to get. a role in the other scottish from which would be made at the time the robbery. which was considered the folly of the earlier script so 'd

everybody wanted to be in the other one this one was like the cheesy hollywood. got invited back and it turned out that this other actor had let go the day go by by which he should've accepted the offer so they withdrew it gave it to me so as a sort of element of destiny in that was created from the press and the course of i've been for artistic 5 his determination to pull you over the brothers and the coincidence of the liam neeson rob roy film he could have ended up playing unfortunately was king edward the 2nd who are the member came to a very sticky end so tell us what was your showbiz highlight well my favorite is the one not to humanise to pee in both the oberoi and braveheart and is now writing to create several waves and the hey show 6 action and this week he's just won the golden globe award for the best actor in a town the cds the connection between bangkok's and his fictional character look and roy is of course that both hail from the city of 20 let's have another lick. by

cause a let's start with a succession less sensation which storm for this year another scene is set up for for next year and we've got in january a new play logan roy the reverse patrick head of the media family how difficult was that. difficult or difficult to be ruthless impact your well i have children. and i know what it's like to be a father so that's that's part of it because you have twice wrecked out of the universe. and many many many visits back to the to the city but recently too to see the new victorian i'll book often than the the banks of the a bushel 1st impressions of the v.n.a. and then the winding is tremendous and then you know i think that you know that goal always be the complete as in the moon as in my view but i i think it's not really there knowledge is being drawn with the guggenheim in buffalo and you think

it will be as influential for the city done i think you know symbol but you know i think it could be and i think it needs it's all the ancillary stuff that goes with the business as. you know on the figures in terms of you know who's going to come seems to be is doing quite well i think people are on it and the way you think we're done to even of a working class city or score city iowa city in any way is as well yes but why is that the city like doesn't the strongly yes in the scottish referendum on independence strongly pro europe and the european level and them was the contrast between for example a city in the north of england which many of which i view of towards a no vote and the european left i think. it's the same thing that elected. trump in america i think really what happened was that there was a disaffection with politics and dungy is quite proud city because it is the u.s. city of scotland you know we were still very proud of our that was the biggest vote

for an independent yeah in the scottish effort i absolutely had 14 and also it is not incompatible with our european nature because scotland generally is much been much more europe conscious than england has it's just you know we're less than a 4 but that's the nature of our being here we want to gallatin in principle you know we have been tribal in our time but we're really on egalitarian and we're very welcoming you know we love people coming to our country we welcome people and what county the best of times but also i think what happened there was this real what happened in the north was and you see it now i mean the braggs thing is such a mass really is a mass and you see the amount of treachery and self-serving that's going on with people like boris johnson and many of feudalist of the swallow going to roy bill is sort of it i wrote and wrote which had to be but kicked their asses for me. yesterday i mean he wouldn't put up with

a dog because they're just they're basically. divisive and self-serving and the wrong way and they don't serve the community this of themselves and i think that that it's ironically that is what the they felt the north that they were being set up so of course people like faraj wave of bragg's it and said well you know what it's blame the others blame them blame god that's what doesn't. of course even the hard work of brian cox has many rules or much features bob the wonderful debbie arnold a lady who has appeared in just about every store bought books in the u.k. however when they became in with her daughters she was speaking not about the glitz and glamour but their efforts on the key issues of homelessness was universal credit you know it just takes 2 weeks for somebody to be turfed out of where they were living and i think the thing what don is doing with buses for the homeless is making little pods within london buses and that not only are they giving some

people so much to live they're also bringing in people to in a rehabilitation into society again to get them jobs to get back in there i mean i cannot imagine what it must be like to have had some of these people have been you know wealthy had good jobs and now they have nothing they're ashamed that i want to go home i can't imagine what it must be like if it's must be an. adobe you've been involved in lisa lister slaughter was the killer so that shouldn't often be very proud of your daughters for sure to kill what would be. your lesson trying to deliver practical help to people but i think that's the most important you know as they say you know give a man a fish eats for a day teach a man to fish and he is for life we've got to bring people back to society and show them what to do i mean an iphone today is enough for you to make a living on it so you know something that you can do some people everyone that's homeless could really do something and make some money they just need to know how they need to be taught they need to be integrated back into society and i would and

that is what don is doing and that's what we're trying to help debbie is a powerhouse in every respect of course to say that politics is showbiz for boring people but the people who made the transition becoming boring or tall in our cities on the politics of protest we came across red so does the artist who devised the 7 o'clock against racism campaign in the late 1970 s. boring read is. that 40 years after its 1st launch rock against racism as a choir for lost status and become the template for many a little movements mobilized in the music industry to promote great causes but i'm joined by the man behind the list of red saunders 'd to talk about protest and then you know so iraq against racism as we back to 976 what was the genesis behind rock against racism is really simple thing it was an outburst by the guitar

god eric clapton who made a completely racist outburst supporting a not powered concert in birmingham it was reported in the music press i was an old eric clapton fan i had all these records and everything and i was outraged because that music is based on black music so i wrote a letter i wrote a letter proposing that we start a campaign against racism in music to bring black and white musicians together called rock against racism and that was in the new musical expression which was able of of music i'm going to make and sounds and black echoes and the left press so out it that was it if there were this mass movement started with a letter a letter and i thought i really thought not much about it i mean i was angry so i wrote the letter and it was done i don't write letters very often you know and i didn't really think about it much and somebody called me up a result friend of mine who's a journalist and he called up and said oh he'd organized a p.o. box to replies to be addressed to he said there's 400 letters here i want what are

you talking about that was it there for the better for the viewers that this is long before the end to let alone before the meal we set up a a postbox to get the response to your anally yes and these you say in those days you set up a post box because you didn't put in individual address because if you did d.n.a. if would be far bombing your address these were dangerous times so we had set up a post box so we were stunned when we got and the letters were just amazing so what was your. message back to the will i will answer the banner i remember one particular letter from a young. school student a young girl in aberystwyth and she wrote the shit out regina litter a melody maker and she said i've got a job graffiti choose a nazi and i hate racism i love music and you know what i do and so i wrote a letter back to her as was the start of that time that was what has to happen i wrote a letter and it just said right susan you are rock against racism aberystwyth get

on with it and one of the things that came out of it as well was the people who were at the center of rock all sixty's people who'd been through the sixty's and been through vietnam solidarity love ins hippie dope everything we did so they had some experience of organizing things and putting on festivals and gigs so it wasn't totally new to them but because of a concert puts a bear that you saw where the good look where we are having are having started well at are unbelievable i mean when we did the victoria park carnival with steel pass and came out dressed in the 78 i was 78 so we have the clash who were the leading political punk band of the time we had tom robinson was that time just had the hit was saying if you're glad to be gay so you had all the politics not just racism but everything about oppression was mixed up steel poles came on stage black regular band from hands with in birmingham came on stage dressed include klux

klan outfits and sang this song klu klux klan i was just incredible and so had polystyrene who passed away sadly who sang the incredible song obama was as young punk feminist and i remember running out and so i was comparing the gig and i remember running out on the stage and i just was overwhelmed with the amount of people and i just screamed this ain't no woodstock this is the carnival against the nazis and the crowd just. i just carried us through the rest of the. red cylinder as one of the all time great campaigner but joined us after the break when we had a few how we dealt with politics last here with what alex is very fond of calling artistic just parno all political pundits join us.

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a symphony of strings. but if she warned you and i do. be sure that there was more of those. you see me you. know when you. mean as i mean without infringing ball. a lot of people. as it bites the 2 could be chargeable side. but as he admits to me as if. these. were. here and she would you. can find them days in doing so. you can do something useful in new she would include in little.

welcome back alex a narrative being some of our top shows some 2019 breaks it provided most of the coffee but we also took a look at the new political commentary by interviewing some of the top 10 political bloggers yes the top bloggers made the political weather and the way the days go by it may have been an editorial in the types this is how craig mundie slug it out to and wins over scott would explain the past to the hugely successful blog. so tell me about this rev a business under color of influence was all about yeah i have some thoughts on what i mean partly it's just a it's just a bit of fun it really winds some people up. the regionally store in doing it because firstly just to make myself easier find on the internet because obviously camels are a really common name to millions people if you start to steer

a camel there's there was a scotland rugby player a footballer and there's a famous canoeist there's a famous gynecologist of all sorts people. so by becoming reverends to come on the only one of the let's dispense with the cola for the universe press that you were in past meeting a good rev a. thing that i quite often with a mother had to windsor was scott would get started well yeah after. the s.n.p. majority in 2011 it was obvious that was going to be a referendum on a member of the and i've been here. i've been independents guy all my life my dad used to work for billy wolfe the former leader of the s.n.p. in bathgate because i want to make a contribution obviously i couldn't go knocking on doors and stuff so i thought to somebody could knock on doors and buff well yeah it was interesting deception there's not not all of what's to be won the unfortunately so yes so i decided to do it online and i tried very brief i looked for other scottish politics websites and

there weren't really any very good ones i briefly wrote for one that was run by a variety of people from various parties but i wrote one article for them and i made a sort of joke in one of the comments i was immediately ostracized and they saw and i thought oh god i'm going to do this myself the 1st question is obvious why you slug it with tools well it started off as a letter to slow ruto that was the full title of a sliver of a turtle is a character out of a song an old irish song i was sure over the line in that song goes it's peace and nonsense but it's great crack the lang goes slow too who was drunk as a rule and here are the original notion was that trying to explain northern ireland was a bit like trying to explain anything to a drunk mom you had to kind of divvy it up in small amounts you have to be prepared to repeat yourself over and over and you have to be prepared to take a very long time and that was 17 years ago and i have to say that think it was

going to take this long but there it is we're still going strong how do you get over that we are in the world doing in the next right. broker well you never know in northern irish politics when the next room is going to come or indeed when the last train is going to be served at the moment it's pretty thin pickens the same least i know for 2 years though wonderfully nobody else than in the rest of the whole of the united kingdom seems to have noticed but you know there's always talks around the corner that whatever whatever falls over seems to we do seem to be able to get it back up again move to the same group to start a blog and it's going to be a no no this boat x. i have considered getting involved in an in a run in the time of the good friday agreement things seem to be getting exciting but in a good way this conflict been going on for most of its 969 i was 10 years of age and 10 years of age don't know what's going on except the place that you've grown up and it seemed to be the most boring political backwater that

a god ever invented suddenly became the focus of all this kind of world politics and. eroded by blood well i grew up in a small town it's belfast called hollywood which was a mixed community very close to belfast. and i mean so much so that when the bombs went off you could hear it but you could hear at distance many of the things you write about your advocacy a scotian the better of you but don't as a as a pretty pretty throw and scott allowed pips but actually you were born and not. i wasn't it i haven't been done in norfolk my father's from edinburgh. was supposed to down there in the air force where he made a local go and settle down for a while so i'm i'm half scots and half english born in the thick and good politics . in reading a case of your life but the generally thought then the leader of the liberal party

of automobile generally thought to his private set to receive the. a letter than a pause because that's what they don't at least isn't the gist of the run up to the fair been for the likes of what was are but that's right i decided i was a liberal. i think 14 years old and we didn't have a candidate in north norfolk we didn't have a constituency association so i voted german for parking him to send a candidate and his private secretary who was richard moore opened the letter and having no constituency himself helped on the train and came to fight the election when he arrived and found the to a young teenager was what more than a constituency association he was where he actually go i was just 15 irving it was fascinating to note that after this season online blogger is the face think he's on this show saw it into the hundreds of fans yes indeed their last year were the

breaks the new morning looming we decided to give no regular panel of pundits to tell us what was going to happen and i was to be said from the top the leadership stakes to the customer selection itself or prestigious panel did not let us down anyone who followed their political purpose would have come up with more winners the losers. were considering this this new research royal ascot the tory leadership state. what do you qualities do you require to. as the winner of this race. well it's very like studying the the results of any race you have to look at. a form over a course and distance at the class look at the ownership the trainers you've got to make all of these assessments can they cope with the going of they've been taking any noxious substances all of these that matters need to be taken into

account the main breck's cakes was that this westminster parliament was meant to be so pretty against a somewhat mythologized view of the european union to then abolish that very parliament to get through brics it i think will be a not too far but when you say can these disparate people unite around their opposition to that without hesitation yes all the debates are about the mechanisms how do you stop a government from doing such a thing how do you stop a government determined to go out with a no deal with that's what happens. but are they theoretically united to stop the progress of parliament and to stop no deal yes and i think the sense of that will intensify over the coming weeks rather than the opposite the but they can't agree on a vote of confidence they don't agree that the leader of the opposition jeremy called and should become short term prime minister but they do agree on these other

matters and they will find a way i think to make that absolutely clear i think the logic of this situation where you have a minority prime minister trying to force his will over a parliament which disagrees of him is the natural that's like come of that would be an election and we are in a parliamentary democracy nobody could object to that. and i'm joined from glasgow by the doyen of scottish political journalism a woman who's been covering scottish elections. and so last go with the tunnel action of 1000 some to 4 i'm delighted to be joined by roof wishart i'm not sure i'm delighted to be carbon dated clay that alex. ruth the departed the main party leader said gemma carbon bought us johnson of both bin and scotland but neither of us that was annoyed success no a toll in fact boris johnson has taken

a leaf out of the trees i'm a pre-book and he's been going round in kind of hermetically sealed poor c.c. i mean he went into distillery but or only air only journalists and author of people rode in there was no punters a load into us can question and would somebody remonstrated with them from the press corps he said well you're a voter aren't you so he sees is being kept well away from anything resembling the electorate and jeremy corbyn well jimmy cloven came up and b i had a lot of difficulty 1st of all he changed his pitch on a 2nd independence referendum 3 times the space of 2 days which is never much of a good look and then he is using terrorism so no i don't think they'll look back with fondness and they're scottish so join the liberals and labor will get their act together much more that they're fighting each other they obviously hate each other more than the they hate the tories which is quite unusual. and to the left there hasn't been anything like a romane or alliance which i thought might develop and then on the other side we've seen what i'm quite convinced although it's conflicting signals that there's been

some form of deal between the bread the fire arjun and the tories which means that the breakthrough threat to the tory voters has really capsized a little bit what was your point you said that if there was such a deal that would be plain sailing for potus johnson but been wonderful i says it was a unilateral deal with the much of a deal when he withdraws his candidates and and doesn't think for it well i was right about the deal and whether it's in a lunch or or behind closed doors it doesn't matter what our final hours has done as given is given the. the tories a clear run in $317.00 seats now there's still a slight problem here because in some of the other marginal seats the far as threat could still be something of a problem but find launch they've got that clear run there is another deal as well which we've forgotten about the lib dems the greens and clyde coming to us nationalists but that's virtually irrelevant only apply country where expecting to win many seats and can't for example and so as

a result of that we've got the exact deal i thought was necessary to get the conservatives the overall majority was a project of the last time at the start of the campaign we had a discussion here in the because predicted that boris johnson would win quite easily and i said no i think it's quite likely to be a hung parliament and i have to say that so far he's been true ved more. and more gifted and the forecast of the me i mean the 2 things which have happened to change my mind is one the failure of anything like a remain alliance the retina let the left is fighting each other and secondly the the substance of the brics party and so now say the chances are you have a fairly easy boris johnson majority and then will leave the european union a few weeks after that but could you be wrong again could there be a difference so could it be a good move to half your person of course i could be wrong again. are you hoping to

be rolled into i think what would be best for this country is a hung parliament yes. i pad i was more or less thought all of them lots of people forecast the election is out but next to nobody forecast this christmas cracker but want to watch is just winston's own seat she needs to remember what happened to nick clegg in sheffield hallam when he was leader and he lost. and that's just how you lead but opec became the official mystic meg of our election programs and sort as well as coming up in this new to cape well next week we'll be picking up on one of the undeserved issues of the election the constitutional future of scotland and then we return to the abiding issue of homelessness we feature both those making practical efforts to help the homeless on the streets of london i look at an academic effort to address this most intractable with social problems so from 1000000000 all the show is goodbye for no.

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