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

With a poem by Adam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated World.

"Remember the moments when we were together

in a white room and the curtain fluttered..."

From the show:

Deuteronomy 31:8

The amazing (and perhaps even lucky) hummingbird hawk-moth

The Mating Season by PG Wodehouse

On this day: 13th July, 1568, Alexander Nowell, Dean of St Paul's, accidentally invents bottled beer on a fishing trip

On this day: 13th July, 1793, John Clare, England's greatest nature poet, is born in Peterborough

Music to wake you up – Going Nowhere by Frank Turner

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