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It's another Soundtracking Live this week - this time recorded a month or so back at Festival No 6 in the weird and wonderful village of Portmerion, north Wales.
\\n\\n\\nOur guest that day was a novelist, playwright and occasional director of shorts, who well and truly thrust himself into the pop cultural consciousness with Trainspotting, and Danny Boyle's subsequent film adaptation of the same name.
\\n\\n\\nWe are, of course, talking about Irvine Welsh.
\\n\\n\\nIrvine was on fine form - discussing everything from his unlikely love of musicals and rom coms to the directors and composers who've inspired him as both a writer and a great fan of cinema. It all seemed to go down well with a packed audience, which made a very long round-trip more than worthwhile.
\\n\\n\\nExpect music from from Oliver, Boogie Nights, Pulp Fiction and more ...
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