28th May, 2020 – East Coker
Episode description
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by TS Eliot, and extract from East Coker.
"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing..."
From the show:
On this day: 28th May, 1883 – the architect of Portmeirion, Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis is born in Gayton, Northamptonshire
On this day: 28th May, 1936 – Alan Turing submits his groundbreaking paper On Computable Numbers, aged just 24
Music to wake you up – Hand in my Pocket by Alanis Morissette
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