Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and his childhood in Edinburgh will be the subject of a new documentary.
Choose Irvine Welsh will look at the Scots writer's childhood in Leith, his teenage years in the 1970s, and his rise to literary stardom.
Welsh will narrate and produce the programme, Signature Entertainment is said to have acquired the UK and Irish rights.
It will feature interviews with Trainspotting director Danny Boyle, the film's stars Robert Carlyle and Ewan McGregor, and Oasis legend Noel Gallagher.
Born in Leith in 1957, Welsh moved to Muirhouse at the age of four where the wave of crime and drug abuse that consumed the area shaped much of his later work.
He left Ainslie Park High School at 16 and departed for London's punk scene in 1978.
Welsh returned to the Capital in the early 80s, taking a job as a training officer in the housing department.
He shot to fame when debut novel Trainspotting was published in 1993 - less than three years before the film adaptation was released.
No release date has been given for the documentary.
Last month we reported Welsh got engaged to Scots actress Emma Currie.
The couple started dating during the Coronavirus lockdown after meeting in 2020.
He captioned his happy announcement on social media: "My god. She said yes. Pissing wet day in Scotland but she said yes. So f**k everything else. Never been so happy in my life."
In September 2020, Irvine told fans on Twitter that he had met his girlfriend during lockdown and enjoyed a more “old fashioned courtship” as they got to know each other.
He tweeted: “Have been enjoying a Covid romance that blossomed into a relationship. Was great to be able to take things slowly, with distanced walks and talks, before it got more intimate. More like an old fashioned courtship.”
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