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With a poem by Thomas Hardy, Drummer Hodge.

"They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest

From the show:

A Month in the Country by JL Carr

On this day: 2 June, 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, remarkably similar in its ceremonial to that of King Edgar, which took place on 3 June, 973, almost a thousand years earlier.

On this day: 2 June, 1840, Thomas Hardy, poet and novelist was born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset

Music to wake you up – Dancing Queen by Abba

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