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Actor Brian Cox talks about growing up in poverty
5 live has been looking at the problem of household debt in British families.
Actor Brian Cox, who's starred in X-Men 2, The Bourne Supremacy and the Âé¶¹Éç's Shetland, grew up in poverty as a child.
He told Phil Williams what it was like, not having enough money in his family for the basics, and how the feeling and memory of being poor never leaves you.
This clip is originally from Phil Williams on 11 June 2014
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