RHLSTP Book Club 81 - Ian Rankin
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
British Comedy Guide
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Book Club #81 - A Heart Full of Headstones - Richard is in Edinburgh and talks to Edinburgh’s second favourite knight (after a penguin) Ian Rankin. They discuss the latest of his many books about Rebus and Edinburgh (is it a character in itself?), how well Ian knows the character after all this time, why he chose to have him age in real time, how his books embrace topicality, whether Rebus could really pull Duckface, why Ian let go of the TV adaptations, the changes made by American publishers and how persistence from the author led the series to be a huge success (and how long that took to happen). Plus the looming presence of Richard Osman, being asked to write the autobiography of Sean Connery, Ian’s attempt to write a Mills and Boon romance and whether it’s possible to understand evil. Plus much more. It’s a must listen for the aspirant author and the fan of crime (or any) novels).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my finest friends welcome to the Rich sharing podcast feed powered by Acast Plus and jokes about willies |
| 0:09.7 | we got some great stuff coming up we're back back on tour with Brihala Stapa. |
| 0:14.4 | We're in Brighton on the 1st of February with Rufus Jones and Maisie Adam. Hardly any tickets left for that one. |
| 0:19.4 | Then we're in London with Amanda Unichie and Rob Bryden. No tickets there for that one. You can join the waiting list. |
| 0:25.0 | We're in Colchester with Mary Beard and Tony Gardner. |
| 0:28.0 | From my parents, aliens and many other things. |
| 0:31.0 | Then back in London there's only one more London gig with tickets left. |
| 0:34.1 | It's with Ed Gamble, obviously he can sell out the Albert Hall, but can he sell out the |
| 0:37.5 | Leicester Square Theatre? |
| 0:38.7 | No, he cannot. |
| 0:39.7 | So there's tickets for that one. |
| 0:41.6 | And then I'm in Bedford with Olafil Bristol with |
| 0:46.0 | Phil Hammond and Abbey Clark sold out Leicester comedy festival with Simon Munri |
| 0:49.9 | and Phil Ellis Canterbury with Jim Moyer and Nancy Sorrell and Nick Wilte, |
| 0:54.6 | Dublin with Tommy Tin and the biggest selling gig of the tour, |
| 0:57.4 | still some tickets left. |
| 0:59.1 | Cardiff with Charlotte Church, maybe a couple of tickets left if you're quick, |
| 1:02.1 | then Sheffield, London, Waric Arts Centre, Glasgow |
| 1:05.7 | sold out. |
| 1:06.7 | And Hull to complete me doing Rhaolestepers, probably for the rest of the year, let's it so do come and see that come and see me |
| 1:14.2 | on tour with uh... can i have my ball back it's rich tearing dot com slash rehullesto for tour dates |
| 1:20.2 | and rich tearing dot com slash ballback for stand-up tour dates. Anyway sit back relax and enjoy |
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