Windy Days and Nights

You join us tonight at the end of a rather windy day. There seems to be a fairly common feeling that we have been encountering a lot of blustery winds recently, both meteorologically and metaphorically. Tonight, we stoke the fire and reflect on the place of the wind in our lives, history and culture.    

Journal entry:

“11th February, Friday.
 There’s a wrapping chill to the air
 And the scent of wet earth.
 Penny unsuccessfully tries to jump a large puddle.

One some late winter days
 The way the sun slants through the trees
 And glances of my face and shoulders

Make the grey world fold open into a summer’s evening
 Of long shadows stretching across pub garden lawns
 And the air is filled with the sigh of collared doves
 And time not yet spent.”

Episode Information:

In this episode I read short extracts from;

John Marzluff and Tony Angell’s (2005) In the Company of Crows published by Yale University Press.  

Anonymous (c.1365) The Chronicle of Anonymous of Canterbury 1346-1365. A recent scholarly edition has been published by Oxford University Press (2008/2019).

I also refer to:

Storm Dunlop’s (2021) Weather Almanac 2022 published by Harper Collins.

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General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. U

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