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Despite the blight of youthful poverty and the gutting of his home city by corrupt politicians, actor Brian Cox says that his beloved Dundee’s defining qualities – its warmth, humour and resilience – are behind its phoenix-like rise from the ashes
WORDS BRIAN COX IMAGES ANGUS BLACKBURN Above: Brian Cox in front of RRS Discovery in Dundee – the boat, the last
traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain, was built in the city before carrying Scott and Shackleton to the Antarctic.