{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/65689b7cadcc610012d0d906?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Shane MacGowan: London-Irish punk, performer and poet","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/1701354220241-408f6cbee1611d257d2fb7e94009979d.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Shane MacGowan has died at the age of 65. From a poetry-fuelled middle class upbringing to the chaotic UK punk scene, MacGowan was an innovator, marrying punk with Irish music, the chronicler of the Irish émigré, and a poet who wrote about love, loss and the chaos of addiction.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Fionnan Sheean and John Meagher look at the life he led and the</p><p>lyrics he wrote.</p>","author_name":"Belfast Telegraph"}