Brian Cox; Imagine with Douglas Stuart, The Scotts
EVERY day is a school day for Alan Yentob. The BBC arts doyen had ventured north to Glasgow to make Imagine … Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit (BBC1, Monday), a profile of the Booker-winning author, and he had clearly done his homework.
He knew about the Barras, Sighthill, the Grand Ole Opry (“another of Glasgow’s quirky haunts”), and what a dookit was. So at home was he in his new environs he even had a go at the accent while reading from Stuart’s novel. “Jee it laldy!” he