Long Distance Runner" for Lilith Fair 1997 Hardcore punk band This Routine is Hell entitled a song on their 2012 EP Repent. Repeat. "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". British rock band Foals included the title of the book in their song "The Runner", a lead single from their 2019 album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2. Spanish rap group Los Chikos del Maíz named a single after the title of the book in 2016. A frame from the film was used on the cover of Velvet Rye's single "Isolated Nation". Television Series 2 of the BBC sitcom Dad's Army included an episode titled "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker", the title being a play on words between the book and the Dad's Army character Private Walker. Politics On 9 January 2009, impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich referred to the story: "Let me simply say, I feel like the old Alan Sillitoe short story 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'... and that's what this is, by the way, a long-distance run." Literature Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc., mentions in his book iWoz about how much he thinks like Smith and was influenced by Sillitoe's story. Adrian Tomine, wrote a graphic novel about the isolation he feels as consequence of his solitary profession called The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist. References 1959 short stories Running books British short stories Social realism Nottinghamshire in fiction Essex in fiction Short stories adapted into films W. H. Allen & Co. books British works adapted into films