Junk Dilemmas: An Irvine Welsh Podcast

06/10/2025

Wake up, it's time for your next love injection.

Men in Love part 2 is ready now for insertion into your welcoming ears.

19/09/2025

The summer of love isn’t over until we say so..

It’s about time we talked about THE book of 2025 – the romance charged, new middle child of the Leigh Boys saga – Men in Love.

Part one of our review is available now on all good podcast platforms.

31/07/2025

Groovy.

31/07/2025

Always partial to a bit of Disco. Admittedly, mostly the crisps.

But this is a gorgeous listen / guaranteed mood improver and that Trainspotting orange was always going to entice me, like Russian sailors whispering in Mikey Forrester's ear.

I'll be sure to play it for my Cannibal Co**se loving co-host too, so he can share his thoughts on the accompanying book episode, coming (sometime) in August.

12/07/2025

We're back to finish the Crime trilogy, as Ray Lennox finally catches up with the monsters that have haunted and shaped him for decades.

It's our review of Resolution, from 2024, out now

21/05/2025

Time to say goodbye to one of Irvine's most
loved characters.

(until he is back in July for Men in Love anyway)

Mikey Forrester? Youtube kidney removal videos? What the f**k are you boys on?'

Our next episode - part two on Dead Men's Trousers - is out now.

17/05/2025

As mentioned on the pod, here are the brilliant illustrations of Renton, Spud, Begbie and Sick Boy's DMT trips from Dead Men's Trousers by Dan McDaid.

https://dan-mcdaid.com/

15/05/2025

Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie are back, but trouble isn't far behind in the form of psychotic coppers, organ traffickers and h***y in-laws.

And, for one of them, it'll be the end of the road.

Part one of our discussion on Dead Men's Trousers, from 2018, is out now.

10/04/2025

You are cordially invited to our latest episode, discussing a tale of forthcoming nuptials, murder, crack (the drug not the craic, bit of that too though), necrophilia and a dash of Northern Soul.

It's Wedding Belles, a film from 2007, directed by Philip John and written by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh.

Here's a (legal) link to the film too, courtesy of Junction Films.

https://www.junctionfilms.com/portfolio/wedding-belles/

10/04/2025

12/03/2025

Choose Jackanory.

26/02/2025

We're off to Miami again, as a sadistic personal trainer breaks in a new client in a way only Irvine Welsh can think up...its our review of the 2014 novel - The S*x Lives of Siamese Twins, out now.