Film star Brian Cox has backed Dundee’s libraries as the city prepares to mark the power of reading.
The 75-year-old Succession star sent a message of support to all the local institutions ahead of the Scotland-wide celebration.
Brian was speaking on a new podcast here by Dundee Libraries, launched to coincide with a national reading moment, 'Keep the Heid and Read.'
The initiative is being run by the Scottish Libraries and Information Council, in partnership with libraries, mental health charities, publishers, booksellers and authors.
They have urged people across Scotland to devote six minutes on Wednesday 11th May 2022 to reading.
In the message, Brian said: "Reading stimulates your imagination in all kinds of ways and allows us to engage with language.
“Reading is about knowledge and how we discover things; we have the internet of course but there is nothing that compares to a good novel.
“Reading helps us understand our history, provokes thought and stimulates our imagination."
Tanya Duthie, at Leisure & Culture Dundee said: “In his recent autobiography, Brian Cox talks about how important reading was to him as a child growing up in Dundee and into adulthood.
“He started with comics, moved on to books and is now an avid reader of classics.
“As his book is newly published and because of his local connection and links to this campaign, we reached out to Brian to ask why reading is important to him and we were delighted to receive this response.
“It was really kind of him to take time to support us and we hope that it encourages everyone to pledge six minutes of reading on May 11th."
- More information on Wednesday’s national event can be found here.
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