13th May, 2020 – If
Episode description
Hello from Suffolk, England.
Sit back and enjoy five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem by Rudyard Kipling, If.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."
From the show:
Winston Churchill takes over as Prime Minister in 1940
On this day in 1842, Arthur Sullivan, composer of The Pirates of Penzance and Onward Christian Soldiers is born
On this day in 1914, RE "Tip" Foster, the only man to captain England at cricket and football, dies aged 36
Music to wake you up – The Major-General's Song by Gilbert and Sullivan
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