Irvine Welsh interview on Trainspotting, heroin and tennis | Unfiltered with James O'Brien #25

Get a new episode of #Unfiltered every week - Subscribe for free: https://playpodca.st/unfiltered Most authors never have a bestseller. Even fewer come to define an entire decade. Trainspotting, both the book and the film that followed it, was a cultural phenomenon in the 1990s, catapulting writer Irvine Welsh into literary infamy. In this unflinching interview with James O’Brien, Irvine talks candidly about the drug-fuelled hedonism of the ‘80s and ‘90s that he both participated in and distilled into stories, how he pulled himself out of a vicious heroin addiction, the whirlwind of success that followed Trainspotting, and his unbridled passion for tennis and Andy Murray. SUBSCRIBE to JOE: http://bit.ly/SUBtoJOE FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL ► Main Twitter -   / joe_co_uk   ► Sports Twitter -   / sportsjoe_uk   ► Instagram -   / joe_co_uk   ► Facebook -   / www.joe.co.uk   ► Snapchat - JOEcouk