This appeared in Scottish Field in February 2020 Fab mag artwork by Alexander Jackson BRIAN COX, award-winning Hollywood actor, has the values of his Dundee upbringing printed through him like a stick of rock — and not just because he once asked the city to bestow an honour upon the Dandy’s pigtailed provocateur, Beryl the Peril. Like Dundee itself, Cox has faced tough breaks and hard knocks; “They call it the City of Discovery, but they should call it the City of Survival,” he once said.