15th May, 2020 – The Things That Haven't Been Done
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 Edgar Guest, The Things That Haven't Been Done Before.
"The things that haven’t been done before,
Those are the things to try..."
From the show:
Weekend Wodehouse: a visit to Blandings castle with Summer Lightning
On this day: May 15, 1718, James Puckle registers the first patent for a machine gun
On this weekend: May 16-17, 1943, Operation Chastise, better-known as the Dam Busters raid
Friday film: The Dam Busters
Music to wake you up – Happy Does by Kenny Chesney
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