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23rd November, 2020 – Children of Our Age
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Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Wislawa Symborska, Children of Our Age.
"All day long, all through the night,
all affairs – yours, ours, theirs –
are political affairs..."
From the show:
On this day: 23rd November, 1644, Areopagitica, John Milton's great defence of the liberty of the press, is published
On this day: 23rd November, 1963, the first episode of Doctor Who – An Unearthly Child – is broadcast, starring William Hartnell as The Doctor
On this day: 23rd November, 1887, William Henry Pratt is born in Camberwell, better known as the actor Boris Karloff, in his iconic role as Imhotep in The Mummy and as Frankenstein's monster for the English director James Whale
Music to wake you up – Styrofoam by Ashley McBryde
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