Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by T.S. Eliot, Portrait of a Lady.
"Now that lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room..."
From the show:
Weekend Wodehouse: Joy in the Morning
Halley's comet, which menaced the skies in 1066, taken as a portent of the Norman Yoke.
John Graunt, father of epidemiology
Pro Corda's Piano Sanctuary, live from Leiston Abbey, every Friday at 7pm, on Soundcloud
Music to wake up to – Wash Your Hands by Roaring Lion
(Listen to the full playlist on YouTube)
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Have a lovely day.
