Brian Beacom

BRIAN BEACOM maintains that the stress produced while working with the Herald for the past 30 years (during which time he picked up several Arts Writer of the Year awards), while writing several showbiz biographies (including a Sunday Times bestseller – The Real Mrs. Brown), and even when coming up with a weekly column, has never created anything like the anxiety endured while appearing in panto, as Buttons, in the Glasgow Pavilion production of Cinderella. He also penned the acclaimed biography The Real Stanley Baxter, chronicling the life of the legendary Scottish comedian and actor.