Brian Cox's Jute Journey [DVD]

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Penny Dreadful' casts Brian Cox as Josh Hartnett's father -- exclusive". EW.com . Retrieved 6 September 2021. I once wrote a note to my sister Irene on a Catholic mass card when she’d sent me on one errand that I really didn’t want to run.

a b c d e "Audiobooks narrated by Brian Cox | Audible.com". www.audible.com . Retrieved 10 September 2021. Optimistic. Enthused. Tries his best. Could try harder. Basically, compassionate. Can be intolerant. Doesn’t suffer fools. But no a bad lad.” That desperation increased during my teenage years because they coincided with a highly corrupt socialist Labour town council in the fifties. They tore the heart out of the city, and my love affair with the town changed when they butchered Dundee. I really began to hate the place and hate the people who ran it, and this ambition I’d always had to get away became much stronger.

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Dawson, Kyle (21 February 2020). "BRIAN COX REPRISES ROLE AS NYC TARTAN DAY PARADE GRAND MARSHAL". NYC Tartan Week . Retrieved 17 September 2021. People here didn’t like the fact that he changed parties while he was our MP, which made him really unpopular. Churchill was a victim of the fact that Dundee was particularly affected by the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment, such as the secular society and a resistance to deference; we’ve always been instinctively egalitarian and fair-minded. The labour of the Indian workmen was far harder. Day in and day out they toiled in torrid heat and corrosive dust. Discipline was harsh in the mills. As long as they worked hard and were punctual, they had jobs. If not, well, there were millions others desperate for a job, any job. Just as in Dundee decades earlier, the conditions and support for Indian workers in Calcutta were dire. There were no tribunals, no unions, no reprieve. Kay, Jeremy (7 February 2019). "Seville International launches sales on 'The Last Right', '14 Days, 12 Nights', 'Mafia Inc.' at EFM (exclusive)". Screen . Retrieved 6 September 2021. Begbie, Scott (22 September 2020). "Succession star Brian Cox: Rob Roy villain was worse than Hannibal Lecter". The Courier . Retrieved 10 September 2021.

Cox confirmed in an interview to The Guardian that he supported the recreational use of cannabis: "It's absolutely great and I recommend it to everyone—get stoned!" [165] Honours and office [ edit ] In general, he is pessimistic about the future of America, a place that was his home for many years, and where his two youngest children were raised. Ebert, Roger. "The Boxer movie review & film summary (1998) | Roger Ebert". rogerebert.com . Retrieved 10 September 2021. Sharpe's Most Memorable Characters | Sharpe | Drama Channel". drama.uktv.co.uk . Retrieved 10 September 2021. Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 10 March 1996 . Retrieved 10 September 2021.

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As to his own four children, they can look forward to a bit of inheritance. His own domestic version of Succession sounds less fraught than on-screen. In their prime, though, walking about Chowringhee was like ambling about Dundee High Street, what with all the accents of home they heard at every turn. The Jutewallahs left Dundee for India in search of better lives, a fortune perhaps. They imprinted themselves in Calcutta’s being. Even in the 1980s, long after they had returned home, the jute barges on the Hooghly River still bore marks of Dundee’s great mills – Eagle Works, Baxters…

Calcutta’s first mill opened in 1855; seventy-five years later, the city was producing 70% of the world’s jute products. With a never-ending supply of raw materials right on its doorstep, it made far more economical sense to concentrate the industry in Bengal, rather than half-way around the world in Scotland.Today there are Scottish veterans forming the Calcutta and Mofussil Society: veterans of the Indian jute industry who like to congregate in places like the Monifieth Golf Club, to partake of Indian food, speak Hindi, and reminisce about their days in the East. The majority of Calcutta’s mills were owned by expatriate British businessmen, but they were run by Dundonians. Ambitious jute workers moved from Dundee to Calcutta in the 1850s, and they ran the industry there for the best part of a century. The last ones returned to Scotland in the late sixties, having been made to feel rather uncomfortable and unwelcome in independent India. They joke about it now, of course, but they heard the labourers keeping the rhythm while loading and unloading jute, singing what sounded like ‘hey-ho, the sahib’s a saala’ (meaning, pretty much, that the boss is a bloody bastard). Ebert, Roger. "For Love Of The Game movie review (1999) | Roger Ebert". rogerebert.com . Retrieved 10 September 2021. This was Brian Cox’s first day on the shoot and the actual start to the filming of the documentary. The crew started their day early with a visit to St Andrews Church at Dalhousie Square. “Seeing the church was overwhelming. Not only did we have an opportunity to attend a beautiful Palm Sunday service, we also managed to meet with some of the congregation, chat and film them,” said Cox.Cox is rambunctious company, canny and frank. It’s impossible not to notice shades of Logan Roy. The role, he says, feels like the culmination of his life’s work. Ramos, Dino-Ray (23 November 2020). " 'Unsinkable': Brian Cox, John Malkovich, Thomas Brodie-Sangster And Harry Hamlin Set For Audio Movie Event". Deadline . Retrieved 6 September 2021.

Life for the peasants who grew the jute was, inevitably, much much tougher. From planting to maturation was ninety to hundred days, by which time the jute had grown over seven feet high. In intense humid heat, the farmers worked day after day to harvest their golden fibre. When jute prices began to fall, they had to supplement their incomes by growing other crops. Even today, Bengal’s farmers are unable to participate in the rise in demand for the ecologically green crop. They scarcely earn 40 pence a day from it. But still, today, nearly four million families owe their livelihoods to jute. In a revealing documentary from BBC Scotland, Hollywood star Brian Cox, whose films include X-Men 2, The Bourne Identity and Braveheart, traces the history and varied fortunes of the city's jute emigrants. Brian Cox | Our Heritage | Open Air Theatre". openairtheatreheritage.com . Retrieved 14 September 2021.

Cox, Brian (18 January 2022). Putting the Rabbit in the Hat. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5387-0731-9. Cox is a self-proclaimed democratic socialist. In 2007, he campaigned for Labour in the run-up to that year's Scottish Parliamentary elections. [156] However, he endorsed the Scottish National Party in the 2011 election because of their higher education policy. [156] Cox told Alastair Campbell that he was an active and committed Labour supporter all his life, until – "you won't like this", the Iraq War. [157] On 25 May 2012, he spoke in support of Scottish independence at the Yes Scotland campaign, having become disillusioned by New Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Cox did not qualify for a vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum due to his residence in the United States. On 29 January 2015, he announced he had quit the Labour Party, believing it had failed to live up to its basic principles in recent years, and joined the Scottish National Party, whom he felt was taking forward values of social justice and representing Scotland's best interests. [158] I joined the Old Rep on Nicholls Street and got a job as assistant to Bunty Kidd at 15, and was there until I was 17. I started off shifting sets, putting up posters, washing the stage every evening, carrying the takings to the bank. Then I started getting small parts, which got to be bigger parts – such as the paper boy in Picnic and Joseph in Dover Road. I’d spend all my time in the theatre and often I’d sleep there because we’d hit bottom dollar in terms of poverty.