Five minutes of civilised calm. As featured on BBC Radio Suffolk.Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com to receive an email when new episodes are added.You can find a playlist of the recommended songs on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxBpfbS-x5t3GLN-TVXMNSSwnAlum0l8Z
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by William Shakespeare, John of Gaunt's speech from Richard II.
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptr'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars..."
From the show:
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, just one of the remarkable novels from her richly-talented family
The Single Petal of a Rose, from Duke Ellington's Queen's Suite
Nub.news – hyperlocal news sites around the UK, sharing Marc's Almanac on its Suffolk sites for Felixstowe and the Shotley Peninsula
A song to wake up to – We'll Meet Again, sung by Johnny Cash
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Have a lovely day.
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