22nd May, 2020 – The Rolling English Road

05/22/20 • 6 min

Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com

With a poem by GK Chesterton, The Rolling English Road.

"Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,

The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road..."

From the show:

Weekend Wodehouse: Thank You, Jeeves – in which Bertie and Jeeves struggle over the master's banjolele habit

On this day: 22nd May, 1945, the RAF drops the first issue of The Flying Hollander, a propaganda newspaper delivered by air to the occupied Dutch, keeping them informed of the progress of the war.

Friday film: Local Hero, starring Burt Lancaster

Music to raise a glass to – It's Five O'Clock Somewhere by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett

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Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com

With a poem by GK Chesterton, The Rolling English Road.

"Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,

The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road..."

From the show:

Weekend Wodehouse: Thank You, Jeeves – in which Bertie and Jeeves struggle over the master's banjolele habit

On this day: 22nd May, 1945, the RAF drops the first issue of The Flying Hollander, a propaganda newspaper delivered by air to the occupied Dutch, keeping them informed of the progress of the war.

Friday film: Local Hero, starring Burt Lancaster

Music to raise a glass to – It's Five O'Clock Somewhere by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett

Sign up to receive email alerts and show notes with links when a new episode goes live at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com

Please share this with anyone who might need a touch of calm, and please keep sending in your messages and requests. You can leave a voice message at https://anchor.fm/marc-sidwell/message.

If you like Marc's Almanac please do leave a review on Apple podcasts. It really helps new listeners to find me.

Have a lovely day.

Previous Episode

21st May, 2020 – A Walk

Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com

With a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, A Walk.

"My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far beyond the road I have begun..."

From the show:

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

On this day: 21st May, 1894, Queen Victoria opens the world's longest river navigation canal, the Manchester Ship Canal

On this day: 21st May, 1602, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold of Otley Hall, Suffolk, sights an unexplored coastline covered in wild grapes and names it Martha's Vineyard in memory of his daughter who had passed away

Music to wake you up – Rainbow by Kacey Musgraves

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Next Episode

26th May, 2020 – i thank You, God

Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com

With a poem by ee cummings, i thank You, God.

"i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees..."

From the show:

Backpacking with the Saints by Belden Lane

On this day: 26th May, 604 – the death of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury

On this day: 26th May, 1868 – the last public hanging in England sees the execution of Michael Barrett for his part in the Clerkenwell explosion, despite questions over the strength of the evidence against him

Music to wake you up – 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton

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Have a lovely day.