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26th October, 2020 – Batter My Heart
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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 John Donne, one of his Holy Sonnets.
"Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you
As yet but knock..."
From the show:
The charge of the Light Brigade – here's a rare wax cylinder recording from 1890 of Tennyson reading his poem
On this day: 26th October, 899, King Alfred the Great, educator, reformer and warrior, goes to glory
On this day: 26th October, 1977, wild smallpox infects its final victim in Somalia – a hospital cook, Ali Maow Maalin
Music to wake you up – Gimme Some Lovin' by the Spencer Davis Group
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