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ScotlandsFest: Choose Life Choose Leith - Trainspotting on Location

Set firmly in unglamorous 1980s Leith, Trainspotting has burst through stage, film and musical genres, dodging the forces of orthodoxy and censorship. But is it just scurrilous punk, junk, transgressional entertainment that got lucky? Bell reveals how this hard-to-read and on-location book tells truths that need to be told. And how it's everyone's business. Author of 'Choose Life, Choose Leith' and living in Leith since 1980, he brings street-level wisdom, erudite research and a good dash of humour to the Trainspotting phenomenon. 'Great study from a serious Trainspotting scholar' (Irvine Welsh).

• Spoken Word
• £10.00
• 27 August 2026
• 60 minutes
• 10:30
• St Columba's by the Castle
• Hall
• Age 16+ (Guideline)
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  Strong language/swearing