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Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Alfred Joyce Kilmer, Trees.

"I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree..."

From the show:

The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis, which contains the sequence where Aslan sings Narnia to life

Beowulf, in a new translation by Seamus Heaney

Tim Brooke-Taylor, singing one song to the tune of another

Sir Stirling Moss

The Book of Numbers, by John Conway

The Best Is Yet To Come, by Bob Dylan

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Have a lovely day.