Hello from Suffolk, England.

Sit back and enjoy five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty.

"Glory be to God for dappled things –

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow..."

From the show:

The Middle Years, Henry James

Gonio castle, resting place of St Matthias the apostle

On this day: May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner tests the world's first vaccine

(Bonus: the always-excellent In Our Time on Jenner and immunisation)

Music to wake you up – On the Sunny Side of the Street sung by Frank Sinatra

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