13 h. ago ‘There’s nothing I’ve regretted doing’. Succession's Brian Cox is back on stage for the Edinburgh Festival

The Dundonian actor talks about a life well lived as he return to the Scottish stage for the first time in a decade as Adam Smith in Fred Goodwin satire Make It Happen

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5 d. ago Mum thought rare cancer was menopause before docs found golf

Gail Redpath, 53, from Edinburgh is living with Stage 4 terminal cancer after being diagnosed in 2024.

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1 week ago Succession creator Jesse Armstrong says he struggles with impostor syndrome

Award-winning screenwriter tells Desert Island Discs that success has not silenced self-doubtThe award-winning screenwriter Jesse Armstrong has said a writers’ room can feel like “walking on the moon” when it is working well, but has admitted to experiencing impostor syndrome during his career.Armstrong was behind the hit HBO drama Succession, starring Brian Cox as the global media tycoon and family patriarch Logan Roy, who sets off a power struggle among his four children. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Succession’s Jesse Armstrong ‘still experiences impostor syndrome’

The award-winning writer was behind the hit drama which starred Brian Cox as the global media tycoon and family patriarch Logan Roy.

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1 week ago Alan Cumming: Scots actor and 'The Traitors' host Alan Cumming gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Tributes were paid by friends Monica Lewinsky and Brian Cox.

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1 week ago ‘I’d never told the same joke twice!’: the explosive rise of Ayoade Bamgboye, Edinburgh’s best new comedian

The Londoner from Lagos wowed the fringe with a show about language, family and cross-cultural identity. She talks about dread, dreams and her bid for ‘controlled chaos’Before her first Edinburgh fringe run last summer, Ayoade Bamgboye put a question to her comedy friends: “How do you debut?” She recalls their advice: “You introduce yourself, and there’s a point of view. There should also be a narrative arc. And you need to establish who you are as a comedian.” This was a lot to hear. “It filled me with dread,” says the 31-year-old. “There’s this recurring thought that you can only debut once. If it falls flat, then you’re just a shit debutante, forever.”Reader, Bamgboye avoided this fate, and then some. A fringe first-timer with a very slender comedy CV behind her, the Londoner-via-Lagos arrived at the festival with a fresh-minted show, Swings and Roundabouts, and left clutching the prestigious best newcomer award, as formerly won by Harry Hill, Sarah Millican and Tim Minchin. (She...

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