20th March, 2020 – Awareness of Alcuin
Mar 20, 2020•4 min•Ep. 1
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Episode description
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm from the English countryside to start your day right. With a poem about Alcuin of York by Siegfried Sassoon.
"At peace in my tall-windowed Wiltshire room,
(Birds overheard from chill March twilight's close)
I read, translated, Alcuin's verse..."
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Tom Holland on St Cuthbert from St Bartholomew the Great
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