29th June, 2020 – The Vagabond
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Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Vagabond.
"Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I seek, the heaven above
And the road below me..."
From the show:
The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
On this day: 29th June, 1613 – The Globe theatre, where some of William Shakespeare's greatest plays were first performed, burns down during a production of Henry VIII, or All is True
On this day: 29th June, 1903 – Alan Blumlein is born in Hampstead, London. A brilliant electrical engineer, he invented stereo sound and pioneered TV and radio
Music to wake you up – I've Got the Sexiest Accent in the World by Dominic Frisby
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