Documentary series about Britain's biggest movies. Danny Boyle, John Hodge, Ewan McGregor and others remember the making of 1996 smash hit Trainspotting. Show more
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Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture
Episode 3
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales
Melvyn Bragg explores the relationship between class and culture. Key cultural figures discuss the radical 80s, Thatcherism, and the 90s assertion that we were all middle class. Show more
Arts magazine. Alastair Sooke meets sculptor Anthony Caro ahead of a retrospective, and Alan Bissett talks to Irvine Welsh about punk literature and his new book Skagboys. Show more
Front Row
Irvine Welsh; The Wind Rises review; Rachel De-lahay
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, playwright Rachel De-lahay and a review of Japanese animation film The Wind Rises. Show more
Front Row
Bread and Roses review; Irvine Welsh; Artemis Fowl
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Author Irvine Welsh discusses his life and work with Mark Lawson, including his breakthrough work 'Trainspotting' and his novel 'Glue'. Show more
HARDtalk
Irvine Welsh - Author
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC News ChannelLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh, whose fictional world is filled with drugs, sex, sleaze and alienation, with deeply flawed but entertaining characters. Show more
Magazine arts show. One year on from the referendum that split the Scottish nation, Irvine Welsh visits Edinburgh to survey what effect it had on the arts in Scotland. Show more
Front Row
T2 Trainspotting, Bruntwood Prize, Agnes Ravatn
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Irvine Welsh and John Hodge on the sequel to Trainspotting; analysing the craft of the playwright; Agnes Ravatn on her thriller The Bird Tribunal, poems mourning the loss of trees. Show more
Front Row
Irvine Welsh's Performers, Bookshop economics, England Is Mine, CN Lester on Stone Butch Blues
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Irvine Welsh, bookshop economics, Morrissey's early years and CN Lester's Queer Icon Stone Butch Blues. Show more
HARDtalk
Irvine Welsh
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC News North AmericaLatest broadcast: on BBC News Asia Pacific
Stephen Sackur speaks to Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh, whose fictional world is filled with sleaze. Now mostly living in the US, how is he still so heavily stirred by Scotland? Show more
Damian Barr presents a crime fiction special with writers Ann Cleeves and Irvine Welsh, and Lauren Lyle, star of Karen Pirie. Show more
Question Time
07/04/2016
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Parliament
David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Ilford. On the panel: Anna Soubry MP, Chris Bryant MP, UKIP's Douglas Carswell MP, economist Ruth Lea and novelist Irvine Welsh. Show more
Loose Ends
Clive Anderson, Nikki Bedi, Shalamar, Irvine Welsh, Leslie Caron, Josie Long, Danny Sapani
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Irvine Welsh, Leslie Caron, Josie Long and Danny Sapani for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Shalamar. Show more
Loose Ends
Martin Freeman, Irvine Welsh, Sarah Phelps, Diane Morgan, Lisa Stansfield, The Turbans, Clive Anderson
37 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Martin Freeman, Irvine Welsh, Diane Morgan and Sarah Phelps for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more
1 hour
Tha Cathy NicDhòmhnaill a' coinneachadh ri sgrìobhadair Irvine Welsh ann an Dùn Èideann. Cathy Macdonald meets author Irvine Welsh in his home city of Edinburgh.
How Steve Archibald made the leap from part-time football at Clyde and working as a car mechanic to star striker at Barcelona. Show more
Documentary celebrating the career of film director Antonia Bird, exploring her fight to get her voice heard and to break through the barriers against her gender and her politics. Show more