17th April, 2020 – The Canterbury Tales
Episode description
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, the opening of his prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
"When April's gentle rains have pierced the drought
Of March right to the root..."
From the show:
Weekend Wodehouse: The Aunt and the Sluggard
Henry Vaughan and Philip K Dick
A Canterbury Tale, Powell and Pressburger's meditation on what it means to be English in wartime
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Songs to wake up to – The Doobie Brothers' Listen to the Music
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