Junkie, DJ, punk, pill popper, petty criminal, binge drinker, screenwriter, TV repairman: Irvine Welsh has lived more lives than the average man of letters and survived to tell the tale. In his hallucinogenic fiction, God turns men into flies as punishment for wasting their lives, babies and ravers swap bodies, and tap

Rachel and Simon speak with novelist and screenwriter Irvine Welsh. Born in the Leith area of Edinburgh, Welsh moved to London in 1978 where he immersed himself in the punk scene. He returned to Edinburgh in the late 1980s, studied for an MBA, spent 18 months addicted to heroin and worked in the council's housing depar

Author and screenwriter Irivine Welsh joins us to discuss his new TV series CRIME, working as a screenwriter and the legacy of Trainspottting.

The Trainspotting author on the return of Begbie in his new novella and why boxing is his favourite counterbalance to writing.

On Episode 33 of EBR | The Writer's Show, Irvine Welsh talks about writing, Trainspotting and his new book Dead Mens Trousers. Recorded at the 2019 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.  Full shownotes at thewritersshow.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Scottish author Irvine Welsh has a new book. The controversial, acclaimed writer of “Trainspotting,” which became a cult film classic, joins Mitchell on this episode of “The Literary Life” podcast. From geopolitics, economics, education, culture and being a part-time Miami resident, Irvine shares his philosophical thou