This Saturday 15 June will be the 40th anniversary of Joy Division's debut album Unknown Pleasures with Far and Wide marking the occasion over Triple R’s airwaves. Recorded at Strawberry Studios in April…

‘Just like Prince and Bowie, Mark Hollis was a visionary. He pushed himself as an artist and us as listeners to hear something unreachable.’

Far and Wide host Steve Wide pays tribute to recently departed musical icon Mark Hollis – ‘the everyman, spiritually ascending’ – best known for fronting the pioneering post-rock band Talk Talk.

Says Steve…

This week on Far and Wide, Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake joins the show to talk about their upcoming tour and the re-release of their Creation Records catalogue