Editing Leith (section)

===In popular culture===
Scottish folk rock duo [[The Proclaimers]] titled their second album ''[[Sunshine on Leith (album)|Sunshine on Leith]]'' after the town, including the [[Sunshine on Leith (song)|eponymous track]].<ref name="Larkin80">{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2003|edition=Third|isbn=1-85227-969-9|page=392|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> This spawned a [[Sunshine on Leith (musical)|musical of the same name]] that included music from The Proclaimers, which itself had a [[Sunshine on Leith (film)|film adaptation]] in 2013.<ref name=Fisher>{{cite news|last=Fisher|first=Mark|title=Sunshine on Leith: A Musical|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2007/apr/28/theatre1|access-date=17 February 2023|newspaper=The Guardian|date=28 April 2007}}</ref><ref name="TIFF">{{cite web |url=http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/sunshineonleith |title=Sunshine on Leith |access-date=2023-02-17 |work=TIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816021448/http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/sunshineonleith |archive-date=16 August 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

[[Irvine Welsh]] had his [[Channel 4]] drama ''Wedding Belles'' (2007) filmed in [[Henderson Street]].<ref>{{cite web| title = Happy so glad to get the hang of it with Marty|date = 5 March 2007|publisher=Edinburgh Evening News|author=John Gibson | access-date = 2011-04-14| url = http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Happy-so-glad-to-get.3351722.jp}}</ref> Welsh's novel ''[[Trainspotting (novel)|Trainspotting]]'' and its prequel, ''[[Skagboys]]'' concern a group of drug users living in the Leith area in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/feb/05/choose-leith-trainspotting-locations-changing-edinburgh-irvine-welsh|title=Choose Leith? Trainspotting locations reveal the changing faces of Edinburgh|date=5 February 2015|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=23 October 2022}}</ref>

The [[BBC]] drama ''[[Guilt (British TV series)|Guilt]]'' is set in Leith, with filming locations including the Eastern Cemetery. The show is written by [[Neil Forsyth]], a former Leith resident and stars [[Mark Bonnar]] and [[Jamie Sives]] both of whom attended Leith Academy.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2019/10/30/guilt-episode-1-review-witty-gritty-new-thriller-no-guilty/|title=Guilt, episode one review|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=30 October 2019|last1=Hogan|first1=Michael|access-date=20 January 2020|archive-date=14 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214045437/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2019/10/30/guilt-episode-1-review-witty-gritty-new-thriller-no-guilty/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[BBC]] [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] drama series ''[[McLevy]]'' features stories loosely based upon the historical figure [[James McLevy]] who operated in Leith crime hotspots amongst other locations in Edinburgh.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/meet-james-mclevy-original-no1-detective-2468858|title=Meet James McLevy - the original no1 detective|date=30 May 2007|newspaper=The Scotsman|access-date=23 October 2022|archive-date=23 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023144332/https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/meet-james-mclevy-original-no1-detective-2468858|url-status=live}}</ref>