All Back to Mine with Neil Forsyth (Guilt, The Gold, Bob Servant)

If you're a fan of Dundee burger impresario Bob Servant, Leith-set sibling thriller Guilt, and true-life Brinks-Mat heist drama The Gold - you are in for a treat...

My guest on this episode is screenwriter and author Neil Forsyth, who created all of those titles and so much more... The Broughty Ferry native has just launched a brilliant new series, Legends, which stars Steve Coogan and Tom Burke, and is based on an early 90s operation where a gang of civil servants went deep undercover in a bid to win - the war on drugs...

We talked about Legends, and truth, and fiction, and Brian Cox's role as Bob Servant, and Neil also gave us an imaginary evening of entertainment round at his place - Midori in hand, I have no doubt - and discussed his choice of a favourite Scottish album, film and book...

Spoiler alert - they were Deacon Blue's Raintown, Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting - in all of its guises, including the Danny Boyle film adaptation - and John Niven's blindsiding memoir, O Brother, about the loss of his younger brother, who took his own life when he was 42.

We met over a pot coffee in a very fancy hotel suite in Glasgow - which bought back classy memories - for both of us...

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