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In this festive edition of Stark Talk, Edi meets a shining star of theatre, film and television. He has a roll call of villainy and terrorism, Machiavellian science and international sex trafficking. He’s been inside the head of Adolf Hitler and also John Lennon. He’s been a triumphant one night stand stripper, beloved Highland policeman, a Priest more than once, and most recently a Tory Prime minister….And of course he is the unforgettable Begbie. Like his father, who brought him up singlehandedly, he was working as a painter and decorator when, for reason he still can’t explain, when he was 18, he enrolled in acting classes at the Glasgow Arts Centre. In a whistle stop tour of his life, we hear about growing up in Maryhill, drama school in Glasgow, founding the Raindog theatre company and how playing a Liverpool psychopath changed in the drama series Cracker changed his path….professionally and personally.