{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62cc00deffa3eb001213abc1/62f3ad93c8c50f00133423ae?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"04 Ian Rankin on 'Touching from a Distance'","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/62cc00deffa3eb001213abc1/1657619902664-bf77965755d0d73c729bb4c2dac367a2.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The crimewriting legend that brought us Inspector Rebus and ardent music lover Ian Rankin joins Jude to discuss another incredible book about music and the people who make it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ian has picked a book about his beloved Joy Division. Touching from a Distance is written by Joy Division singer Ian Curtis's wife Deborah and was published fifteen years after he died in 1980.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In this episode they chat early music experiences, toxic masculinity and the existential thriller Ian plotted out but never quite wrote based on Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures. There's still time Ian, there's still time!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You can pre-order Ian Rankin's new book here <a href=\"https://geni.us/AHeartFullOfHeadstones\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://geni.us/AHeartFullOfHeadstones</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Other books mentioned in the podcast:</p><p><br></p><p>England’s Dreaming by Jon Savage <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/books/england-s-dreaming/9780571368549\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://uk.bookshop.org/books/england-s-dreaming/9780571368549</a></p><p>Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom by Nik Cohn&nbsp;<a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/books/awopbopaloobop-alopbamboom-pop-from-the-beginning/9781784870485\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://uk.bookshop.org/books/awopbopaloobop-alopbamboom-pop-from-the-beginning/9781784870485</a></p><p>Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by&nbsp;Peter Hook&nbsp;<a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/books/unknown-pleasures-inside-joy-division/9781471148330\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://uk.bookshop.org/books/unknown-pleasures-inside-joy-division/9781471148330</a></p><p>Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook&nbsp;<a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/books/substance-inside-new-order/9781471132421\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://uk.bookshop.org/books/substance-inside-new-order/9781471132421</a></p><p>Chapter and Verse - New Order, Joy Division and Me by&nbsp;Bernard Sumner&nbsp;<a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/books/chapter-and-verse-new-order-joy-division-and-me/9780552170499\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://uk.bookshop.org/books/chapter-and-verse-new-order-joy-division-and-me/9780552170499</a></p><p>Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: the Joy Division Years: Volume I by&nbsp;Stephen Morris&nbsp;<a href=\"https://bit.ly/3JHMhtg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://bit.ly/3JHMhtg</a></p><p>Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II by Stephen Morris&nbsp;<a href=\"https://bit.ly/3QDEvTv\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://bit.ly/3QDEvTv</a></p><p>Joy Division: Juvenes by&nbsp;Kevin Cummins&nbsp;<a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/books/joy-division-juvenes/9781788402712\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://uk.bookshop.org/books/joy-division-juvenes/9781788402712</a></p><p>Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer&nbsp;<a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/books/charlotte-sometimes/9780141379210\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://uk.bookshop.org/books/charlotte-sometimes/9780141379210</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You can buy Jude's book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives here: <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives/9781474622929\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives/9781474622929</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Finally White Rabbit's Spotify Playlist of 'booksongs' - songs inspired by books loved by our guests - is here: <a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7chuHOeTs9jpyKpmgXV6uo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7chuHOeTs9jpyKpmgXV6uo</a></p>","author_name":"White Rabbit "}