Colin McCredie is an acclaimed actor, big music lover and recent wearer of spectacles.

We discuss growing up in Perth, landing dream film roles, his work on the iconic TV show Taggart and the books he loves. This includes:

• Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagen
• Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• The Crow Road by Iain Banks
• Forensics by Val McDermid
• Billy Sloan's One Love One Life
• Memoirs by Thomas Dolby, Brett Anderson, Johnny Marr
• O'Brother by John Niven
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens