14th May, 2020 – Pied Beauty
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 Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty.
"Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow..."
From the show:
Gonio castle, resting place of St Matthias the apostle
On this day: May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner tests the world's first vaccine
(Bonus: the always-excellent In Our Time on Jenner and immunisation)
Music to wake you up – On the Sunny Side of the Street sung by Frank Sinatra
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