Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by George Herbert, Love, iii.

"Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back

Guilty of dust and sin..."

From the show:

Weekend Wodehouse: Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey

Save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry

The half-forgotten genius of William Hazlitt

Friday night films: The Secret of Roan Inish and I Know Where I'm Going

July Skies, See Britain by the Train (Pevsner version)

Music to wake up to: If You're Going Through Hell (Just Keep Going), Rodney Atkins

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Have a lovely Easter weekend.