Stark Talk

Edi Stark meets Robert Carlyle, 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 reasons he still can't explain, at 18 he enrolled in acting classes at the Glasgow Arts Centre. In a whistlestop tour of his life, Edi hears about growing up in Maryhill, drama school in Glasgow, founding the Raindog Theatre Company and how playing a Liverpool psychopath in the drama series Cracker changed his path, both professionally and personally.