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London Real

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting & Skagboys

London Real

Brian Rose

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4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2013

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Scottish novelist, playwright, and director Irvine Welsh drops by to talk about his new book Skagboys, the upcoming movie “Filth” based on his book starring James McAvoy, the evolution of the heroin market in Leith in the 1990s, and why he enjoys living in America.

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0:00.0

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0:20.3

This is Evan Welsh and you're watching London Real, one of the coolest up-and-coming podcasts.

0:37.0

I am here outside historic St. Leonard's Church, and if you've tuned into the podcast before

0:44.9

You'll know this building as one of the places they took the body of one of the home girls that Jack the Ripper sliced up. I think it was victim number five and they brought her carcass here and if you ever want to see a picture of what he did it was pretty damn gruesome. So props to, props to my man Jack, they never caught him. It's quite a good

1:05.8

story if you ever want to look it up. This week on the show, we have another Brits and his name is Irving Welsh and if you don't know who Irving is

1:15.9

I don't know where you've been for the last 20 years. Irving is most famously known for his book

1:21.7

TrainSpotting that he wrote in Phonetic Scottish.

1:26.5

If you ever try reading it and you're not from Scotland, it's, it can be a, it

1:31.2

can be quite a task and but where you really probably heard of

1:35.2

train spotting was Danny Boyle's movie that he made in 1996 and I remember watching

1:40.8

it and I talk about this in the show and it blew me away from the music to the

1:46.0

Anks the youth angst and I remember me and my friends we would we would say to each other

1:50.8

I chose not to choose life because that's one of the lines in the movie even though my accent is horrible

1:55.7

So I chose not to choose life. So anyways it was such a powerful film for me and it was just a blessing to have Irving in studio.

2:04.0

He was so candid.

2:05.3

I was just so worried he was going to be like, oh,

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