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Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by a 9th-century Irish monk, Pangur Ban.

"I and Pangur Ban my cat,

'Tis a like task we are at..."

From the show:

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Craik

Leslie Phillips: "Ding Dong!"

The White Cat and the Monk

Art History at Bedtime, read by Dr Bendor Grosvenor

A song to wake up to – The Bones, by Maren Morris

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Have a lovely day.