i saw brian cox. — scottish independence. i saw brian cox, the _ scottish independence.ctor, calling | brian cox, the actor, calling him one of the greatest political thinkers scotland has ever produced. that was the thing. he really did think about how to do politics? that's right. he was the master tactician. he transformed the scottish national party from being a party on the fringes with a handful of mps, to becoming in the mainstream and in government in scotland since 2007. at the heart of alex salmond's ambition was scottish independence. the referendum in 201a, the yes or campaign for independence had momentum. it round a no vote close. in the end a9% of people voted for scotland to be an independent country. that was up from a third before. the man was never going to be bigger than the movement. but he is synonymous with independence and he has continued of course to campaign for scottish independence right until yesterday. katrina renton, thank you very much. more of that and the rest of the news on the bbc news website. good afternoon. it was a cold start to t

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to quote brian cox, i'm loving it. [ laughter ] >> seth: oh. brian cox -- that's so fantastic., again, he just wrote a long book about acting. and i can't believe that your quote was the fact that he's now doing mcdonald's ads. [ laughter ] >> well, believe it. [ laughter ] i don't know what to tell you. >> seth: what is -- what is this about? [ laughter and cheers ] >> what is -- oh, what is this about? >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> sorry, i got confused for a second. i was, like, what are we talking about here? this is about -- so, there's a modern day gal, struggling actress, who is -- wakes up trapped in a 1940s middle -- mid-century musical. >> seth: all right. >> and she has to kind of sing her buns off to get out. and then, we keep -- you know, we see a flashback or two to her current day sitch, and she has a boyfriend. and that would be me. >> seth: and now, alex, be honest, are you a good boyfriend? [ laughter ] >> i think so. i think -- >> seth: okay. >> some would say, his character -- his character. my character, that is this guy -- how're we doing so far? [ laught

those leading tributes — his friend and fellow campaigner for scottish independence — the actor, brian coxated humanity. he was probably, i think, created humanity. he was probably, ithink, where created humanity. he was probably, i think, where the greatest political thinkers that scotland is ever produce anything possibly these islands have ever produced. he an extraordinary man. i think his appeal was his humanity and how he came across to other people. when i first met alex, i was not and discussed national party, as a labour supporter what happened with labour and we were just talking about that, it may be very disillusioned. especially social democracy unit for the one place that social democracy was happening was back in my own country and i suddenly had to rethink my whole feelings and alex. and he enabled me to do that. spacex is celebrating what it's called �*a day for the history books�*, after successfully guiding the booster from this starship rocket back to the launch pad — intact — for the first time. the booster was caught in mid air by two mechanical arms — nicknamed chops

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and our team at the desk for the next hour this week, actor and snp supporter brian cox, lib dems deputydaisy cooper and billionaire businessman, john caudwell. morning, morning — let's start by looking at the newspapers. it is dominated by the death of alex salmond, on the front pages of the sunday times and right across the scottish front pages. the national smashers with his final words in public, scotland is a country, not a county. keir starmer has been speaking to the sunday mirror, marking 100 days of labour in power. and the mail on sunday claims that the metropolitan police was forced by government to give taylor swift blue light escorts to her shows at wembley. a warm welcome to all three of you this morning. let's start by talking about alex salmond. brian cox, you knew him well and appeared recently on one of his new television programmes he was doing on turkish television. what are your memories of him? he television. what are your memories of him? . , . television. what are your memories of him? . ., television. what are your memories of him? ., ., ., ., , of him? he was a