Talk:The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

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[edit] Split into...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (song)", and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film)? Her Pegship 04:53, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

The current article looks like a collection of stubs, but IMHO it's still better than three stubs. I'm against the proposed split. --Kjoonlee 16:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Definitely for the split... the page reads like a disambiguation page with too much information as it is. -DMurphy 02:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Definitely needs to be split and even for the Alan Sillitoe's collection of short stories with the same title. --Capitalg 20:54, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Against the split for now, but if the sections on the film and the story grow considerably in the future than perhaps split it into two articles with the music section put into the story's article.Soltake (talk) 01:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't know whether there was consensus to create it, but I've just moved the dab page so that at least it's spelled right! PamD (talk) 17:10, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Poem

I think, though I am not certain (can anyone verify?) that the film uses the poem 'The Song of the Ungirt Runners' by Charles Hamilton Sorley. If it is the film I'm thinking of then there should probably be a link to Sorley.

I agree it should be split for better understanding