Irvine Welsh's life and childhood in Edinburgh to be focus of new documentary

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.