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Anything Goes with James English

68: Trainspotting Author Irvine Welsh tells his story

Anything Goes with James English

Anything Goes with James English

Society & Culture

4.5 β€’ 3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 22 September 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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James English, The Anything Goes Show Ep68.

James talks to Irvine about his early life growing up in Edinburgh, his battle with heroin addiction and his critically acclaimed books and eventual smash hit movie's Trainspotting 1 and 2.

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0:00.0

Oh, Boom we're on. Today's guest. We've got the legend

0:19.3

other than we'll have we brother. Good. First of all thanks for letting for coming on my show man.

0:24.4

No I'm absolutely delighted. Thank you. Yeah good stuff man so how's life been?

0:29.4

Great I just back here I've been back in the UK, kind of since April, kind of just divide

0:37.3

in between here in America, kind of more moving towards being here, but work here is kind of just had a lot of things on the

0:44.7

go and trying to sort all that out and keep abreast of all that.

0:48.7

Keep busy?

0:49.7

I keep busy, you know, so we're talking about, you know, the devil makes work for you oh and so I've got to keep busy otherwise it's like kind of fun there's too many

0:56.5

distractions you get that anyway I'm leaving it mate that's why we've got to keep

1:01.3

busy I always go back to the start with my guest

1:03.6

Darwin and find out a bit of background about them and then how they get

1:06.4

involved in the life they were involved in. So where did you grow up? I grew. I was born

1:11.6

in Leith just down the road there which is the old port with Edinburgh and

1:16.8

like most families in the area which kind of what they called the slum clearances of the time like in the 60s and 70s and we kind of moved along the history in the fourth like first to

1:29.0

Pullton West Pilton in the prefabs and then on to Muirhous in the Masonets.

1:34.3

So I kind of grew up in sort of

1:36.4

of Belize Pilate in Muir House, mainly Muir House.

1:39.0

Good upbringing.

1:40.2

Ah, it was a good upbringing.

1:41.2

It's like because everybody kind of, you know, in that local community,

1:48.0

knew each other because they all came for the, you know, it's like the same neighbors that we had in the tenements and Leith but the same neighbors

1:53.6

were in the the prefab in Fulton and again they kind of move people by streets

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