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Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, the opening of his prologue to The Canterbury Tales.

"When April's gentle rains have pierced the drought

Of March right to the root..."

From the show:

Weekend Wodehouse: The Aunt and the Sluggard

The Canterbury Tales

Henry Vaughan and Philip K Dick

A Canterbury Tale, Powell and Pressburger's meditation on what it means to be English in wartime

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Songs to wake up to – The Doobie Brothers'Listen to the Music

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