Skagboys addict is the ultimate individualist.." "" remarks, "It was known that there was more material of "Trainspotting" than went into the final draft, but that’s true of most novels. So you anticipate a lashed-together series of outtakes and bloopers. What you get is something quite different. The prequel has all the marvellous set pieces, the schemes, stories, scams and dreams and the same mad profusion of narrators that characterises everything Welsh has written. But it’s long, strange, full of lush description that gives the whole thing a haunting and elegiac quality". Skagboys Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer
Barry Welsh is Coming theme. A special programme from the fictitious Fishguard Film Festival. This episode won a Bafta Cymru award for Best Light Entertainment. A St. David's Day special in which Barry Welsh searches for the truth behind the patron saint of Wales. Barry is joined by Gwyn, Mr. FFFF, Pete Baikie and Beca Evans (Pub Quiz) for a "live" Hogmany-style extravaganza as Wales counts down to midnight and the "Welshest day of the year", St. David's Day. The third St. David's Day special from the series in which Hugh Pugh provides his own personal account of ten thousand years of Welsh history.