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

With an extract from Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats.

"I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,

Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs..."

From the show:

Dunstan by Conn Iggulden

On this day: 19th May, 988 – The death of Dunstan, politician, priest, silversmith and scholar, who pulled the devil by the nose with red-hot tongs

On this day: 19th May, 1649 – England is declared a Commonwealth and will remain a republic for 11 years

Music to wake you up – Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles

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