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In this interview episode, I'm joined by author, crime historian, broadcaster and keynote speaker N. Leigh Hunt.A member of the American Society of Criminology, Nick is regarded as an expert on mass shootings and school attacks. He was recognised at the inaugural True Crime Awards with a Highly Commended Award in the Best New Crime Author category for his book
Crime historian, broadcaster and author of "I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America's First Modern School Shooting". Previously studied Criminology at The University of Sheffield and Broadcasting in California. I am also a qualified Program Management professional.You can book Mr. Hunt and over 300 other incredible talents for your podcast at podstarz.net today!Email: Podstarz.info@gmail.comIG: @Podstarz_netX (FKA Twitter): @PodstarzTeamFB: @PodstarzTikTok: @PodstarzTeamYouTube: @Podstarz Team
Send us a Text Message.* Warning *In this episode, we talk about school shootings in Dunblane Scotland and in the US, we also talk about violence against young children and gun laws. If this episode is not for you, please give this episode a miss. The sound is not fantastic on this episode, we were having a few issues with Effie's microphone, so please bear with us. We were lucky enough to meet N Leigh Hunt at Crimecon in Glasgow and he had a huge effect on us both, so we felt so honoured when he agreed to come on the podcast and talk about his book "I dont like Mondays" and school shootings. N Leigh Hunt is a South African-born author, crime historian and broadcaster. He is a member of the American Society of Criminology and considered an expert on California school shootings. He graciously received the High Commended award for Best New Author at the Inaugural True Crime Awards in 2023. He was recently a speaker at Crime Con in Glasgow - where he must us!His book - ‘I Don't Like Monday's - The True Story Behind America's First Modern School Shooting' took years of interviews and research to accurately record the horrifying event. The information collected in his book had never been published previously. He graciously received the High Commended award for Best New Author at the Inaugural True Crime Awards in 2023 He is currently a director of a radio station and produces shows and podcasts in the Midlands, UK. He lives with his wife in Olney, Bucks but still thinks of San Diego as his hometown.He is currently working on the Cokeville Wyoming school crisis, the crimes of Craig C Price (the youngest serial killer convicted in the USA) and the possible wrongful conviction of Amanda Lewis in Esto, Florida.It is such a fascinating conversation about not only school shootings but so many other tough conversations around gun laws, Bob Geldof, speaking to school shooters in prison, the FBI and MAFS! Bet you didn't expect that one! Think of it as our 3rd Birthday gift to you! Thanks for listening. You can buy the Book I Dont Like Mondays https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Like-Mondays-Americas-Shooting/dp/B0BYTDGRYR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3E62FBZAFC8P2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4nwuqx3F43wY8lMZmesqFKmml4eC4ZCLiGmvCnxJeN1B0DywEKX8tYlEtDhsbofUi1lQPrj2-SlI_ndRNIL9d4k0G2x9QU5EbpDnI4GnyQ8BU1U5anQ4026-WlGHJTxM7z_405H_jD4qG3hGrc8Edyf23vSSQ-UnN69wEkhVJc5sk48dqUd9SZ3WFhiOMx4epLUHpeI7l4l1t1B8WyLNkiiypxfBsbYyVNEs2gGcoLg.eZ9381mQ6gu2VJn4HVFMQm4YXhsLrhU0bwioCD5RpJM&dib_tag=se&keywords=i+don%27t+like+mondays&qid=1723733359&sprefix=i+dont+like+mondays+%2Caps%2C198&sr=8-1Go follow him on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nleighhunt/ Listen to In Esto https://shows.acast.com/in-esto-podcasthttps://www.nleighhunt.com/ and drop him an email with the subject - Overnight Oats Hosted by & Researched & written by Marti Jeremiah-Shelley & Effie McDonald Edited & Produced by Erin Ferguson https://www.instagram.com/erinfaudio/ Since 2023 ( earlier episodes are badly edited by us!) Theme Music Vampire Strut by Joybean @AudioJungle Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mumsmysteriesandmurder/You can also support the pod and buy us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/mumsmysteriesandmurderAnd we would love it if you could give us a cheeky review & subscribe to make sure you don't miss an episode.
fWotD Episode 2645: Homeric Hymns Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Thursday, 1 August 2024 is Homeric Hymns.The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanized: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. The hymns praise deities of the Greek pantheon and retell mythological stories, often involving a deity's birth, their acceptance among the gods on Mount Olympus, or the establishment of their cult. In antiquity, the hymns were generally, though not universally, attributed to the poet Homer: modern scholarship has established that most date to the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, though some are more recent and the latest, the Hymn to Ares, may have been composed as late as the fifth century CE.The Homeric Hymns share compositional similarities with the Iliad and the Odyssey, also traditionally attributed to Homer. They share the same artificial literary dialect of Greek, are composed in dactylic hexameter, and make use of short, repeated phrases known as formulae. It is unclear how far writing, as opposed to oral composition, was involved in their creation. They may initially have served as preludes to the recitation of longer poems, and have been performed, at least originally, by singers accompanying themselves on a lyre or other stringed instrument. Performances of the hymns may have taken place at sympotic banquets, religious festivals and royal courts.There are references to the Homeric Hymns in Greek poetry from around 600 BCE; they appear to have been used as educational texts by the early fifth century BCE, and to have been collected into a single corpus after the third century CE. Their influence on Greek literature and art was relatively small until the third century BCE, when they were used extensively by Alexandrian poets including Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes. They were also an influence on Roman poets, such as Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil, Horace and Ovid. In late antiquity (c. 200 – c. 600 CE), they influenced both pagan and Christian literature, and their collection as a corpus probably dates to this period. They were comparatively neglected during the succeeding Byzantine period (that is, until 1453), but continued to be copied in manuscripts of Homeric poetry; all the surviving manuscripts of the hymns date to the fifteenth century. They were also read and emulated widely in fifteenth-century Italy, and indirectly influenced Sandro Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus.The Homeric Hymns were first published in print by Demetrios Chalkokondyles in 1488–1489. George Chapman made the first English translation of them in 1624. Part of their text was incorporated, via a 1710 translation by William Congreve, into George Frideric Handel's 1744 musical drama Semele. The rediscovery of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in 1777 led to a resurgence of European interest in the hymns. In the arts, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe used the Hymn to Demeter as an inspiration for his 1778 melodrama Proserpina. Their textual criticism progressed considerably over the nineteenth century, particularly in German scholarship, though the text continued to present substantial difficulties into the twentieth. The Homeric Hymns were also influential on the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century, particularly Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later poets to adapt the hymns included Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Constantine P. Cavafy. Their influence has also been traced in the works of James Joyce, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, and the novel Coraline by Neil Gaiman.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:47 UTC on Thursday, 1 August 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Homeric Hymns on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Arthur.
N. Leigh Hunt - I don't like MondaysOct 7, 2022The Cleveland Elementary School shooting is a school shooting that took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States. The principal and a custodian were killed; eight children and police officer Robert Robb were injured. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 25 years.A reporter reached Spencer by phone while she was still in the house after the shooting, and asked her why she committed the crime. She reportedly answered: "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day,"N. Leigh Hunt is the first person to tell Brenda's story, with Brenda's help.From Wild Blue PressN. Leigh Hunt a South African born crime historian and broadcaster living in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the American Society of Criminology and considered an expert on the "I Don't Like Monday's" school shooting in 1979.Book: I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS: The True Story Behind America's First Modern School ShootingBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.
John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795, the eldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats's four children. Although he died at the age of twenty-five, Keats had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines. But over his short development he took on the challenges of a wide range of poetic forms from the sonnet, to the Spenserian romance, to the Miltonic epic, defining anew their possibilities with his own distinctive fusion of earnest energy, control of conflicting perspectives and forces, poetic self-consciousness, and, occasionally, dry ironic wit.Although he is now seen as part of the British Romantic literary tradition, in his own lifetime Keats would not have been associated with other major Romantic poets, and he himself was often uneasy among them. Outside his friend Leigh Hunt‘s circle of liberal intellectuals, the generally conservative reviewers of the day attacked his work as mawkish and bad-mannered, as the work of an upstart “vulgar Cockney poetaster” (John Gibson Lockhart), and as consisting of “the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth language” (John Wilson Croker). Although Keats had a liberal education in the boy's academy at Enfield and trained at Guy's Hospital to become a surgeon, he had no formal literary education. Yet Keats today is seen as one of the canniest readers, interpreters, questioners, of the “modern” poetic project-which he saw as beginning with William Wordsworth—to create poetry in a world devoid of mythic grandeur, poetry that sought its wonder in the desires and sufferings of the human heart. Beyond his precise sense of the difficulties presented him in his own literary-historical moment, he developed with unparalleled rapidity, in a relative handful of extraordinary poems, a rich, powerful, and exactly controlled poetic style that ranks Keats, with the William Shakespeare of the sonnets, as one of the greatest lyric poets in English.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
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S4E32 - I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS In this episode of Stop the Killing, we delve deep into one of America's darkest days with N. Leigh Hunt, author of "I Don't Like Mondays". This is an exploration of the first modern American school shooting, which happened on January 29, 1979, at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California. **Key Highlights:** 1. Leigh explains the infamous case, its context, and why it has an enduring impact on the American psyche. 2. He shares insights into the then 16-year-old female shooter, her controversial statement "I don't like Mondays", and where she is now. 3. We discuss the victims of this tragic event and how the lives of the survivors were forever altered. 4. The conversation touches on the significant societal changes that followed this shooting, such as the transformation of California laws and school security changes. 5. A look at the revealing communication between Leigh and imprisoned shooters reflects on the complexities of remorse, regret, and the pursuit of redemption. Join us for this compelling conversation, as we continue to seek answers and possibilities for prevention in our mission to 'Stop the Killing'. THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR EZY PA.COM WANT THE VIDEOS HEAD TO YOUTUBE @sarahferrismedia And if you are wanting AD FREE | EARLY ACCESS | BONUS CONTENT HIT THE BANNER ON APPLE PODCASTS TO SUBSCRIBE OR SUPPORT US: Patreon.com/stopthekilling Send us your Listener Questions for our Tuesday episodes Message us on instagram : @conmunitypodcast @stopthekillingstories And for all things Katherine Schweit including where you can purchase her book STOP THE KILLING: How to end the mass shooting crisis head to: www.katherineschweit.com SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS, SUPPORTS THE PODCAST CRIMECON UK TICKETS HERE CRIMECON US TICKETS HERE DON'T forget to use DISCOUNT CODE “FERRIS” BLENDJET Check out BlendJet: The original portable blender coupon: stk12 (case sensitive) custom URL: https://zen.ai/stk12 Go to blendjet.com and to save 12% use my special link, and the discount will be applied at checkout https://zen.ai/stk12 RESOURCES Stop the Bleed training FBI RUN, HIDE, FIGHT This is a CONmunity Podcast Production on the Killer Podcasts Network Check out more: CONNING THE CON KLOOGHLESS - THE LONG CON GUILTY GREENIE THE BRAVERY ACADEMY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Leigh Hunt is President and CEO of Modern Sailing school and club. Modern has been introducing people to sailing on SF Bay since 1983. In 2014, Leigh, decided to make his passion for sailing into a business - leaving a career in product management to purchase Modern from the previous owner. Recently Modern has expanded their operations, taking over the space in the Berkeley Marine Center that used to be OCSC.
The Cleveland Elementary School shooting is a school shooting that took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States. The principal and a custodian were killed; eight children and police officer Robert Robb were injured. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 25 years.A reporter reached Spencer by phone while she was still in the house after the shooting, and asked her why she committed the crime. She reportedly answered: "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day,"N. Leigh Hunt is the first person to tell Brenda's story, with Brenda's help.From Wild Blue PressN. Leigh Hunt a South African born crime historian and broadcaster living in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the American Society of Criminology and considered an expert on the "I Don't Like Monday's" school shooting in 1979.Book: I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS: The True Story Behind America's First Modern School ShootingThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement
Author N. Leigh Hunt joins the podcast and talks about his book "I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America's First Modern School Shooting". This book uncovers key details behind the 1979 school shooting at Cleveland Elementary School, in the San Carols community of San Diego, CA. On the morning of January 29, 1979, 16 y.o. Brenda Spencer shot several elementary children and adults, killing principal Burton Wragg and custodian Mike Suchar, who both died trying to help the children. Spencer infamously said "I don't like Mondays" when asked why she committed the murders. Spencer pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 35-life in prison. The Boomtown Rats released a song in July 1979 with the title "I Don't Like Mondays" which was very controversial and still popular in the UK. N. Leigh Hunt spent years researching and uncovering shocking details from officers, investigators, and lost police dispatches. He has interviewed people who were on the scene and local reporters who spoke with the perpetrator directly after her shooting spree. Hunt has even cultivated an unlikely rapport with the killer and shed light on previously unknown details about her upbringing and influences.Click here to purchase the book from Amazon (we do not receive any money for this referral). Crime or Fiction: Each episode we look at the laws on the books and quiz the panelists to see if they can guess which law is fake. 2 are real, 1 is fake--can you guess which one is the fake? The theme this episode is the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 section 54 – nuisances by persons in the thoroughfares (in the London Metro area).A. It's illegal to slide upon ice or snow to the common danger of the passengers.B. It's illegal to use insulting words or behaviour during the time of divine service.C. It's illegal to ring a door-bell without lawful excuse.Thank you to all of our listeners! We sincerely appreciate all of you and thank you for listening to our show. Please be sure to leave a rating and review on Apple or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Disclaimer: The views expressed on this podcast are solely of the speakers and do not reflect the views of the Deputy DAs Association nor the District Attorney.Questions and comments can be emailed to crimenewsinsider@gmail.com.Featured in the Top 10 San Diego Podcasts!Featured in the Top 10 Criminal Law Podcasts!Website: https://sdddaa.net/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SanDiegoDDAs/Twitter: @CrimeNewsInsidr, @SanDiegoDDAsInstagram: @sandiegoddasMusic by: The Only Ocean - "Snake"Image by: Pixabay user Michael Gaida.
This week Sam brings the culmination of six previous episodes with the final part of the 1990 Dan Simmons novel The Fall of Hyperion. Kassad is back and he's ready to kick some Shrike butt! However, the Shrike is still a master of time so Kassad ends up in the distant future where he leads a band of humans against hordes of Shrike in a final battle that also determines how many Shrike get sent back in time. Also, Moneta is there and it's her first time meeting Kassad due to time shenanigans. Back in the valley, Brawne sets off to the Time Tomb known as the Shrike Palace because her trip to the datumplane showed her that it has some connection to the Tree of Thorns. Sol goes back to the Sphinx to sit and wait for Rachel. Meanwhile, Keats/Severn has a not-very-helpful conversation with Ummon and then dies (kinda) and Leigh Hunt buries him under the watchful gaze of the Shrike (don't ask how), and then finds himself stranded on Earth. Back with the Ousters, the Consul is informed that the Ousters are not, in fact, invading the Hegemony, it's the TechnoCore, gasp! He's also informed that at no point did his actions stem from freewill, but were manipulated by just everyone around him. He does not take that well. Also meanwhile, Meina Gladstone is struggling to find a path forward that doesn't involve using the TechnoCore's plan of a deathwand bomb that may or may not wipe out humanity (Spoiler: it probably will). that's when the ghost consciousness of Severn/Keats decides to bop-around the datumplane/Metasphere a bit having shed his corporeal body. He takes this opportunity to get into the dreams of Meina and also His-Brand-New-As-Yet-Unnamed-Holiness Paul Duré, and give them some very cryptic information that really saves their butts. Will Meina be able to thwart the Core? Will humanity survive? How the heck does Brawne turn the Shrike to glass? Answers to two of those question, and definitely not all three, can be found in this action-packed, jumbo finale of the Fall of Hyperion! While you may be sad this is the end, Danielle could not be more stoked that it's over.
Contemporary poet and critic Leigh Hunt described George IV (1820-30) as a violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in debt, a disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of demi-reps and gamblers without a single claim on the gratitude of his country, nor the respect of posterity. Characters George IV – King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover (1820-30) George III – King of Great Britain and Ireland (1760-1820), King of Hanover (1814-20) Charlotte of Mecklenberg- Strelitz – Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland (1761-1818), Queen consort of Hanover (1814-18) Princess Charlotte of Wales – daughter of George and Caroline Prince Frederick, duke of York – younger brother of George and one-time heir presumptive Prince William – younger brother of George and eventual heir to the throne Maria Fitzherbert – illegitimate Catholic wife of George Caroline of Brunswick – legitimate wife of George Mary Robinson – a lady-in-waiting for Queen Charlotte, love interest of George Charles James Fox – Whig statesman and friend of George William Pitt the Younger – Prime Minister (1783-1801, 1804-06) Henry Addington – Prime Minister (1801-04) Lord Liverpool – Prime Minister (1812-27) George Canning – Prime Minister (1827) Duke of Wellington – Commander at the Battle of Waterloo, Prime Minister (1828-30, 1834) Robert Peel – Home Secretary, founder of the Metropolitan Police Daniel O'Connell – political leader of Ireland's Catholic majority, later an MP Elizabeth Fry – Prison and social reformer Henry Hunt – radical speaker and agitator John Nash – Architect James Gilray – contemporary cartoonist Leigh Hunt – contemporary poet and critic Richard Sheridan – Irish satirist Napoleon Bonaparte – Emperor of France Richard II – King of England (1377-99) Charles II – King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1660-85)
This week Sam brings the penultimate episode of the 1990 Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion. Picking up where we left off last time, Severn takes a little meditation time to have visions of Meina Gladstone's war room where the TechnoCore has just the best idea to defeat the ousters: Herd all the Hegemony people to safety in the labyrinths then use a novel WMD they just happen to have to wipe out the ousters. While many of the FORCE leaders love this idea, Meina, and also Danielle, are not on board. Severn also sees the consul being rescued from brigands by his friend Theo Lane, which is the most interesting Danielle has found the Consul to be in quite some time. Severn comes too and is joined by Leigh Hunt who has come to take him to talk to Gladstone while Father Duré goes to God's Grove to talk to the Templars. Unfortunately, as Severn and Hunt step through the farcaster, they end up not in Government House, but in what Severn identifies as Earth, or its recreation, far from the web. Severn recognizes the area as Italy and he and Hunt are pushed towards Rome on the abandoned planet. Also, Severn develops an instant case of tuberculosis, because Keats. While Severn and Hunt conduct their slow trek to Rome, Meina and her generals observe the first invasion of Heaven's Gate, which ends in the planet being destroyed from orbit, so not a great start. Meanwhile, the Consul makes it back to his ship with the help of Melio Arundez, but instead of returning to Sol and Rachel, he is requested by Meina to liaise with the Ouster swarm in the Hyperion system to negotiate a ceasefire. Also, Kassad is fighting the Shrike and while not doing too badly, is definitely not winning. Back on God's Grove, Father Duré has a tête-à-tête with the True Voice of the Worldtree and the Bishop of the Church of Final Atonement. A lot of things are revealed in this conversation, and this is about the time where Danielle's brain just gives up trying to understand everything. While this section is definitely jam-packed with intrigue and complications, we do at least get a new pope. Unfortunately, said pope is not our two hosts, but maybe next time.
Get ready – today's episode is all about hedges. RHS scientist Tijana Blanusa delves into the environmental benefits different hedges provide, grower and self-proclaimed “plant nerd” Kevin Hobbs fills us in on unconventional plants that end up making great garden barriers, and RHS advisor and longtime friend of the show Leigh Hunt teaches us how to plant deciduous hedges in January. Plus, several RHS experts share hedge “love letters,” letting us in on their favourite variety. Links: Hedges: choices with environmental benefits Hedges: planting The Story of Trees: And How They Changed the Way We Live
Daily Quote The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller) Poem of the Day Yesterday Once More Richard Carpenter and John Bettis Beauty of Words A Few Thoughts on Sleep Leigh Hunt
In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She received a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opened fire on the elementary school across the street.The event is forever glorified by the song ‘I Don't Like Mondays' by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings. Long before Columbine and Sandy Hook, there was Brenda Spencer…I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS: The True Story of America's First Modern School Shooting sifts through the mythology that has sprung up around this fateful day, presenting the raw and riveting facts for the first time. This book lays bare this seemingly average teenage girl's brutal motives and subsequent arrest. N. Leigh Hunt spent years researching and uncovering shocking details from officers, investigators, and lost police dispatches. He has interviewed people who were on the scene and local reporters who spoke with the perpetrator directly after her shooting spree. Hunt has even cultivated an unlikely rapport with the killer and through personal interviews, has shed light on previously unknown details about her upbringing and influences. I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS: The True Story Behind America's First Modern School Shooting-N. Leigh Hunt
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When famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was living with writer of ‘Frankenstein,' Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Italy, he was said to be bereft over the deaths of three of his children, who had died soon after their births. One day, on June the 24th 1812, he went for a walk alone, and his wife later wrote of what happened to him in a letter to a friend. Shelley saw the figure of himself as he walked on the terrace, and it said to him, “How long do you mean to be content?” On another occasion, a friend was staying with them, Mrs. Jane Williams, who was described by Shelley's wife as ‘a woman of sensibility' who ‘has not much imagination and is not in the slightest degree nervous – neither in dreams or otherwise.' Mrs Williams was standing inside the house gazing out of a window that looked out onto the terrace, when ‘she saw, as she thought, Shelley pass by the window, as he often was, without coat or jacket. He passed again, as he passed both times the same way – towards which he went there was no way to get back except past the window again, except over a wall twenty foot from the ground. She was struck at seeing him pass twice thus, and looking out and seeing him no more, she cried, “Good God, can Shelley have leapt from the wall? Where can he be gone?” She was told that Shelley was not at the villa at the time. ‘She trembled exceedingly when she heard, and it proved indeed that Shelley had never been on the terrace and was far off at the time she saw him.' Shelley's final encounter with his doppelganger came when he was walking alone on the beach. Again, he encountered himself. On this occasion, the doppelganger was looking at him, but his hand was pointing out to the sea. Not long after this, Shelley's body would be found in the sea after he drowned while sailing back from Liverno in a storm in the bay of Spezia on July the 8th 1822. He was a month short of his 30th birthday. The boat had been custom built for Shelley in Genoa, but it sank. Some, including Shelley's friend Edward John Trelawney, said Shelley lacked the seamanship skills to have undertaken this 7-hour journey with two friends, retired Navy officer Edward Ellerker Williams and boat-hand young Charles Vivien. Richard Holmes of The Guardian however says, ‘Despite what Trelawny implied, Shelley had considerable experience sailing boats, from schoolboy expeditions up the Thames, to sailing single-handed down the Arno, the Serchio, and beyond Livorno out to sea. He had successfully survived perilous incidents on the Rhine in 1814, on Lake Geneva (with Byron) in 1816, and on the Pisan Canal (with Williams) in 1821,' however, crucially he adds, ‘It was true, however, that Shelley was a river sailor.' Mary Shelley later claimed in her ‘Note on Poems, 1822,' that the design of the boat had been defective, and had never been seaworthy. Says Richard Holmes, ‘Unknown to Shelley,' his boat ‘had a fundamental design-fault. A twin-master schooner could not simply be scaled-down to a small, undecked, open boat.' Some suggested Shelley's sadness over his children's deaths had led him to want to drown himself, while others suggested he had been attacked by pirates; but there were many who whispered that he been assassinated for political reasons while out to sea. Shelley's boat was found 10 miles off shore after the storm had sunk the boat. Some suggested it had been rammed, for one side was caved in. His friend Trelawny said that William's shirt was ‘partly drawn over the head, and he was missing one boot.' He felt that this meant Williams had been in the act of undressing for bed when he died. Shelley's father was a Baron in Parliament. Shelley was staunch in his own radical and outspoken anti-establishment political views. Biographer Richard Holmes says Shelley's political interests included ‘Radical reform of the Houses of Parliament, disestablishment of the Anglican Church, formation of trade unions, universal suffrage.' In a letter to a Mr. Leigh Hunt,
True Crime Tuesday presents I Don't Like Mondays: America's First School Shooting w/ Author/Researcher N. Leigh Hunt! In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She receives a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street. The event is forever glorified by the song ‘I Don't Like Mondays' by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings. Long before Columbine and Sandy Hook, there was Brenda Spencer… N. Leigh Hunt joins TCT to discuss Brenda's history, thoughts, possible motives, and the relationship he has developed with her while she has been incarcerated. PLUS: An all-new Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals with Beer City Bruiser! "I Don't Like Mondays..." comes out via Wild Blue Press on August 30th, but you can get your advance copy here: https://wildbluepress.com/i-dont-like-mondays-n-leigh-hunt-true-crime/ #crime #truecrime #truecrimeppodcasts #truecrimeradio #truecrimetuesday #timdennis #beercitybruiser #ringofhonorwrestiling #dumbcrimesstupidcriminals #idontlikemondays #brendaspencer #nleighhunt #1022luger #firstschoolshooting #70s #bobgeldof #sandiego #schoolshooting #sniper #teenagekiller #womankiller #wallyspencer #scottspencer #dotspencer
True Crime Tuesday presents I Don't Like Mondays: America's First School Shooting w/ Author/Researcher N. Leigh Hunt! In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She receives a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street. The event is forever glorified by the song ‘I Don't Like Mondays' by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings. Long before Columbine and Sandy Hook, there was Brenda Spencer… N. Leigh Hunt joins TCT to discuss Brenda's history, thoughts, possible motives, and the relationship he has developed with her while she has been incarcerated. PLUS: An all-new Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals with Beer City Bruiser! "I Don't Like Mondays..." comes out via Wild Blue Press on August 30th, but you can get your advance copy here: https://wildbluepress.com/i-dont-like-mondays-n-leigh-hunt-true-crime/ #crime #truecrime #truecrimeppodcasts #truecrimeradio #truecrimetuesday #timdennis #beercitybruiser #ringofhonorwrestiling #dumbcrimesstupidcriminals #idontlikemondays #brendaspencer #nleighhunt #1022luger #firstschoolshooting #70s #bobgeldof #sandiego #schoolshooting #sniper #teenagekiller #womankiller #wallyspencer #scottspencer #dotspencer
John Keats in Hampstead. The poet and biographer Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, strolls around the village of Hampstead with Henry. They discuss the short life and luscious poetry of John Keats, walking on the Heath, visiting Leigh Hunt's house in the Vale of Health and finishing at Wentworth Place (now Keats House), where they meet its principal curator, Rob Shakespeare. Penguin Classics editions of Keats: Selected Poemshttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33867/selected-poems--keats/9780140424478.htmlhttps://apple.co/3IE3ZMC Complete Poemshttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33699/the-complete-poems/9780140422108.htmlhttps://apple.co/3H4pUMy Selected Lettershttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/177598/selected-letters/9780141192796.htmlhttps://apple.co/3FUzvUxSo Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (introduced by Jane Campion)https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60470/so-bright-and-delicate--love-letters-and-poems-of-john-keats-to-/9780141442471.htmlhttps://apple.co/33kffP9 Andrew Motionhttps://poets.org/poet/andrew-motion Keats by Andrew Motionhttps://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571346660-keats/ The Invention of Dr Cake by Andrew Motionhttps://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571216321-the-invention-of-dr-cake/Keats Househttps://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/attractions-museums-entertainment/keats-house See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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We're kicking off our mini-season on Sex, Scandal, and Money with an episode about social climbers, upstarts, and Jamaican heirs in Regency England. We cover a lot in this one including Sanditon's Miss Lambe, Leigh Hunt's Black ancestry, Charles Dickens, the scandalous life of George Eliot, the Real Housewives, and Alicia LeFanu's novel Fashionable Connexions with our pal, Dr. Lydia Craig. Minor spoilers for Fashionable Connexions, which you can read online via Google Books.
Introductory note on James Henry Leigh Hunt (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)
Weep if you must. It is far better than to repress your tears. But Leigh Hunt finds greater virtue in cheerfulness. Fanciful and graceful --- his writings exerted a wholesome influence on all nineteenth century journalism. (Volume 27, Harvard Classics) James Henry Leigh Hunt born Oct. 19, 1784.
This week we're discovering how to garden the pet-friendly way. Whether that's making a dog-proof garden, keeping cats at bay or growing food for small animals such as guinea pigs and rabbits – there's lots you can do to keep plants, people and pets all happy together. Author, dog lover and RHS Senior Horticultural Advisor Helen Bostock explains how. Author and organic veg grower Claire Ratinon shares her love of chicken keeping and offers tips on how to keep birds and plants in happy balance. We meet the new Editor of The Garden magazine, Tom Howard, who offers a sneak peek into the upcoming May edition. RHS gardening advisor Leigh Hunt gives advice on crop rotation in the vegetable plot and we hop along to an RHS Partner Garden, Leonardslee in Sussex to meet some rather unusual residents...
What will our hero see when he climbs to the top of the castle? H.P. Lovecraft, today on The Classic Tales Podcast. Welcome to The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening. Thank you to all of our financial supporters. We couldn’t do this without you. We really try make your support worth your while. For a five-dollar monthly donation, you get a monthly code for $8 off any audiobook download. Give more, and you get more! It helps us have something to count on every month, and you help to keep the podcast going strong, giving more folks like you can discover the classics in a curated and easily accessible format. Go to classictalesaudiobooks.com today, and become a financial supporter. You’ll be glad you did. Thank you so much. App users can hear the poem, “Abou Ben Adhem”, by Leigh Hunt, a contemporary of Byron, Shelley and Keats in the special features for today’s episode. And if it’s more convenient, we are streaming our episodes through YouTube, now. A link can be found in the comments section for today’s episode. I’m hoping to resume producing more audiobooks of classic novels like I did in the past. I need to dedicate a week every month to it. My goal is to produce a standalone audiobook every month, like I used to. I’d love to do all of the Lupin novels, and do all the stories of Sherlock Holmes, John Carter of Mars, and tackle some Henry James and more Jane Austen and Victor Hugo. So, if you can swing it, please become a financial supporter. This is where I’d like to use your monthly contribution, along with supporting the show. And if you can’t do that, please tell a friend about us. I’d just love to get more classic literature into the ears of more people. And now, The Outsider, by H.P. Lovecraft. Tap here to go to www.classictalesaudiobooks.com and become a financial supporter! Tap here to go to our merchandise store! Tap here to visit our YouTube Channel:
Love your fellowmen ...a simple yet powerful message. Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
Huntovo jméno znal na přelomu 18. a 19. století téměř každý Brit, který se alespoň trochu zajímal o kulturu. Proslul spíše jako literární činitel než spisovatel, ale figuroval v pro veřejnost zajímavých aférách, vedl časopis Examiner a pomohl zviditelnit dodnes slavné autory britské literatury. Leigh Hunt byl potomkem někdejších emigrantů do Ameriky, kteří byli nuceni vrátit se do Británie.
Huntovo jméno znal na přelomu 18. a 19. století téměř každý Brit, který se alespoň trochu zajímal o kulturu. Proslul spíše jako literární činitel než spisovatel, ale figuroval v pro veřejnost zajímavých aférách, vedl časopis Examiner a pomohl zviditelnit dodnes slavné autory britské literatury. Leigh Hunt byl potomkem někdejších emigrantů do Ameriky, kteří byli nuceni vrátit se do Británie.
Poem: The Glove and the Lions, Leigh Hunt Statement of the Whole: Where is the line between scaffolding and handholding? Educators build steps of mastery into their curricula, but doing so well (like our awesome guest, Tim Kemper!) requires being able to … Continue reading →
Toma Aí um Poema: Podcast Poesias Declamadas | Literatura Lusófona
James Henry Leigh foi um poeta, crítico e ensaísta inglês. Hunt foi cofundador do The Examiner , um importante jornal intelectual. Hunt também apresentou John Keats , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Robert Browning e Alfred Lord Tennyson ao público. Ele nasceu em 1784 e faleceu em 1859, aos 74 anos. >> Por 5,99 você aceita um adicional de Soneto para acompanhar? Apoie o projeto! =P https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B08DJ61J4R/ Poema: Jenny Kiss'd Me Autor: Leigh Hunt Voz: Daniele Santos| @dani.i.santos Use #tomaaiumpoema Siga @tomaaiumpoema Jenny me beijou assim que a vi, Pulando da cadeira em que estava sentada; Tempo, seu ladrão, que ama se apoderar De tudo que é bom, coloque mais isto em sua lista! Diga que estou cansado, que estou triste, Diga que a saúde e a riqueza me abandonam, Diga que envelheço, mas além disso, diga também Que Jenny me beijou. Descubra mais em www.jessicaiancoski.com Está servido? Fique! Que tal mais um poeminha? ___ >> Quer ter um poema seu aqui? É só preencher o formulário! Após o preenchimento, nossa equipe entrará em contato para informar a data agendada. https://forms.gle/nAEHJgd9u8B9zS3u7 CONTRIBUA! =P >> Formulário para Indicação de Autores, contribuição com declames, sugestões (...)! https://forms.gle/itY59kREnXhZpqjq7
Toma Aí um Poema: Podcast Poesias Declamadas | Literatura Lusófona
James Henry Leigh foi um poeta, crítico e ensaísta inglês. Hunt foi cofundador do The Examiner , um importante jornal intelectual. Hunt também apresentou John Keats , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Robert Browning e Alfred Lord Tennyson ao público. Ele nasceu em 1784 e faleceu em 1859, aos 74 anos. >> Por 5,99 você aceita um adicional de Soneto para acompanhar? Apoie o projeto! =P https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B08DJ61J4R/ Poema: Jenny Kiss'd Me Autor: Leigh Hunt Voz: Pedro Cardoso| @peti_gato Use #tomaaiumpoema Siga @tomaaiumpoema "Jenny kiss'd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have miss'd me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kiss'd me." Descubra mais em www.jessicaiancoski.com Está servido? Fique! Que tal mais um poeminha? ___ >> Quer ter um poema seu aqui? É só preencher o formulário! Após o preenchimento, nossa equipe entrará em contato para informar a data agendada. https://forms.gle/nAEHJgd9u8B9zS3u7 CONTRIBUA! =P >> Formulário para Indicação de Autores, contribuição com declames, sugestões (...)! https://forms.gle/itY59kREnXhZpqjq7
Join us on a Halloween spooktacular! Dr Chris Thorogood of Oxford Botanic Garden delves into the weird and wonderful world of parasitic 'vampire' plants including the rainforest giant Rafflesia, the largest flower in the world; to one you can grow at home. Plus RHS gardening advisors Leigh Hunt and Becky Mealey talk death in the garden, with a guide to telling if your plants are ill or just resting, and how to rescue them from a near-death experience. Sometimes Frankenstein-style surgery really is the way forward!
Weep if you must. It is far better than to repress your tears. But Leigh Hunt finds greater virtue in cheerfulness. Fanciful and graceful --- his writings exerted a wholesome influence on all nineteenth century journalism. (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)James Henry Leigh Hunt born Oct. 19, 1784.
Introductory note on James Henry Leigh Hunt (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)
Jeremy thinks through what makes a great title. Rasa shares a vexing question about the birthday song. In between, they discuss "Rondeau" by Leigh Hunt.
Seed saving can be a powerful and life-affirming act – permaculture designer Poppy Okotcha shares her thoughts on how and why we should all be saving our own seeds. Resident gardening guru Leigh Hunt dispenses timely gardening advice with his top 10 jobs for August, and RHS advisors discuss rain gardens. Plus: how long can seeds and plants last? Dr Chris Thorogood of Oxford Botanic Garden reveals some surprising facts.
Lots of us are drawing on creative pastimes as a way of getting through the current situation. This week we speak to artist, scientist, author and Deputy Director of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Dr Chris Thorogood. Chris shares his fascination with weird and wonderful plants and offers some expert tips on how to paint and draw them. Fiona Davison explores the history of botanical art at what is generally considered the world's biggest collection of plant paintings, the RHS Lindley Library. Young RHS Ambassador George Hassall is also a fan of plants that bite back, and he tells us about his passion for the gruesomely beautiful pitcher plants, Nepenthes. And finally... our resident allotment guru Guy Barter talks to gardening advisor Leigh Hunt about cunning ways to beat seed shortages and grow your own at home.
"The Australian Sunrise" by James Lister Cuthbertson. "Powerful Owl" by Joseph Lavelle Wilson. "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. "Jenny Kiss'd Me" by Leigh Hunt. "The Golf Links" by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn.
The complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2KqvNHY Hero and Leander: A Tragedy in Verse Presented by The Online Stage Musæus the Grammarian, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman, John Donne, John Keats, Friedrich Schiller, Leigh Hunt, Letitia Elizabeth Landon This is a compendium of eight poems on the loving pair of legend, Hero and Leander, featuring works by Marlowe, Tennyson, Landon, Schiller, and others. Hero and Leander is a Greek myth concerning the tragic story of two lovers. One was a priestess of Aphrodite who lived in a tower in Sestos, and the other a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to spend time with her, with Hero's lamp at the top of her tower as his guiding light, and they shared a warm summer of love. However, one stormy winter night, Hero's light was blown out and Leander was drowned by the rolling waves. Upon seeing his dead body, Hero threw herself over the edge of the tower to be united with him in death. Cast: Narrator: Leanne Yau Hero: Anna Grace Leander: Mark Crowle-Groves Teras: Jennie Vanderlugt Thracian Soldier, the Lapwing Faces, and Neptune: Andy Harrington Production copyright 2020 The Online Stage
You arrive at the Prancing Pony in the middle of a stormy night. Do you take the comfort and security of a booth, or do you go with the flexibility and convenience of a table. Tweet at us @DCitaBC (11:35). Luke and Dan finally get to the big questions. What makes us human? Can a society truly ever evolve beyond its past? How does a space river reach dope status? Is there anyone dumber than Leigh Hunt? Ya boys score a behind the back full court called shot and you know Dan’s got a theory about the A.I.s. Next week we are reading the first third of Jade City by Fonda Lee! Special thanks to VOLO for the intro and outro music.The post The Fall of Hyperion: Part Three first appeared on Don't call it a book club..
Leigh & Gia are bravely taking on the Crossing for a Cure as a team. Leigh is the Director of Sponsor Relations for the event and has led the sponsorship program with lots of heart. Developing deep relationships that bring infinite value to the event. This show is broadcast live on Wednesday's at 7PM ET on W4CY Radio – (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).
From tablets to foliar sprays, choosing what products to use when you fertilise houseplants can seem like a bit of a minefield. Leigh Hunt, the RHS’s principal horticultural advisor, joins me to explain why we need to feed houseplants in the first place, what they need and how to decode those numbers on the back of the packet! Plus I answer a question about aquascaping soil and bring you part four of the On The Ledge sowalong, looking at what to do once your seedlings have emerged. For full show notes, visit https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/2019/4/5/episode-90-fertilisers-for-houseplants-plus-otl-sowalong-part-four
Let's start down the Christmas trail (again compliments of www.QuoteGarden.com - formatting omitted) with a tradition from Betsy Cañas Garmon's family. She sits with her husband in a room lit only by tree lights and wants us to remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all. Thomas Tusser also has advice for the season. At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. Lenora Mattingly Weber is here as well to focus our perspective. Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts. Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly! No one is quite sure who first said it but there's little doubt that we can all give it a hey! hey! of our own. Gertrude Tooley Buckingham is joining in, Christmas is coming; it is almost here! With Santa and presents, good will and cheer! Now that may be even better than one of those Hey! heys! In steps the realist to keep us from getting too carried away. Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. It's not surprising that no one takes credit for that one. Fortunately, May Sarton is here to keep us on the Christmas rails, I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. Dinah Maria Mulock is also here for us and for are sense of good will, It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb. Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making. Thank you Leigh Hunt, that certainly brings the full spirit of Christmas into focus for us. John Kendrick Bangs sharpens our focus as well, Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red. His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide. You may think it was Charlie Brown who said, The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect! but it was actually Charles N Barnard. Even so, it's so true. Let's give Edgar Guest a chance to get in his two cents worth, At Christmas a man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime. Woops, that pesky author unknown is butting in again with another dose of reality, Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. Eric Sevareid puts us back on track though, As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. Bob Hope expands on the point, When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things — not the great occasions — give off the greatest glow of happiness. D D Monroe is also on board with the sentiment, It is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis. Okay Benny Hill, go ahead,
This week we're at the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show in Derbyshire, revelling in this floral extravaganza in the heart of the Peak District. Florist Jonathan Moseley reveals the UK's largest ever orchid display and James Alexander-Sinclair chairs a live question and answer session with leading gardening experts including Martin Fish, Leigh Hunt and Helen Bainbridge. For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast
To the tunes of Chet Baker, Bob Marley, Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell, and the Happy Wanderer, guest host Emily Dickinson helps us welcome March, along with e.e. cummings, William and Kim Stafford, Derek Walcott, Jorie Graham, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Bishop, … Continue reading → The post EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME (Chet Baker): THE EMERGENCY OF BEING ALIVE (William Stafford): A REVISIT TO POETRY AS BRAIN ROADS– AND ALTERNATIVE LIFE ROUTES, SCENIC ROUTES, EVACUATION ROUTES, EXALTATION ROUTES, PRAISE, IN JUST SPRING first appeared on Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown.
Urban Britain is paving over its front gardens. Lawns, hedges and hollyhocks are being replaced by tarmac and car ports. Each garden may be tiny, but with over 50 million front gardens in the UK, the numbers really add up. It's an environmental problem, quite literally on our doorsteps, and Jheni Osman is finding out what can be done about it. In Ealing, West London, Jheni meets Leigh Hunt, Horticultural Adviser to the RHS. He reveals that according to their statistics a quarter of all gardens in the UK are now completely under the asphalt. Added together, these tiny patches of grey contribute to many environmental problems - flash floods caused by rain run-off; the 'urban heat island' effect from bricks and mortar which act like storage heaters; and the loss of all-important wildlife corridors for the birds and bees of the cities. Meanwhile, up in the North of England, Jheni takes a look at how it SHOULD be done. With Horticulturalist Nigel Dunnett, she takes a walk around green and lush suburban Sheffield and spots innovative planting solutions to the problems of urban paving. Nigel tells her about the devastating floods which swept through Sheffield in 2007, and donning her hard hat, Jheni takes a look at the city's ingenious response to the disaster - a radical transformation of a former dual carriageway into a 1.3 kilometer green-way and 'Rain Garden'. Back in Bristol, Jheni visits two examples of the trend being bucked. A thriving bat colony roosting in an urban garden is a haven for all sorts of wildlife, and a communal planting scheme which is transforming the hard grey of the city centre into a food-growing paradise, complete with runner-beans and sweetcorn. Perhaps there is hope for our gardens yet. Produced in Bristol by Emily Knight.
In this edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast we visit the Lindley Library at the RHS headquarters in Vincent Square, London to hear some fascinating tales from the gardening archives as Head of Libraries and Exhibitions, Fiona Davison picks out her highlights from the collection. Also, Principal Horticultural Advisor, Leigh Hunt is on hand to give his recommendations for shrubs for seasonal scent and the RHS Garden Wisley team outlines jobs you should be doing in your garden right now, including: • Weeding beds • Renovating old fruit trees • Re-potting larger houseplants Plus, as always, we have the latest news on events and offers across our four RHS Gardens.
William and Kim Stafford, Emily Dickinson, Derek Walcott, Jorie Graham, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Bishop, Luis Montero, David Wright, Gerald Stern, Judith Viorst, Philip Larkin, Seneca, Rumi, Hafiz, Stephen Grellett, C. K. Williams, Eleanor Lerman, Mark Doty, Hilarie Jones, Marilyn Nelson, … Continue reading → The post THE EMERGENCY OF BEING ALIVE (William Stafford): –POETRY AS BRAIN ROADS THE DOCTOR CALLS FOR– ENGINEERING ALTERNATIVE LIFE ROUTES, SCENIC ROUTES, EVACUATION ROUTES first appeared on Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown.
The scientists and expert gardeners at Wisley discuss how to grow the perfect potatoes, delicious strawberries that will fruit in small gardens all summer long, and how slugs can actually be good for your garden! RHS Wisley’s curator reveals unmissable flowers to see on a visit to the garden this March. Plus, easy wildflowers to encourage more birds, bees and butterflies into your plot. Seasonal gardening questions are answered by RHS garden advisors Tony Dickerson, Leigh Hunt and Rebecca Meally with plant disease expert Geoffrey Denton.
Seasonal gardening questions are answered by RHS garden advisors Tony Dickerson, Leigh Hunt and Rebecca Mealey and plant disease expert Geoffrey Denton from the RHS pathology lab. Topics discussed include: clematis, climbing roses and vertical vegetables, honey fungus, how to stop trees 'bleeding' after pruning, choosing unusual tomato varieties, growing camellias, and solutions to common daffodil problems. Plus, the lead gardeners from RHS Wisley give advice on jobs to do in garden NOW: foolproof wisteria pruning, propagating summer bedding, sweet peas and meconopsis from seed, and choice and care of summer and autumn fruiting raspberries. Plus, offers for 'early bird' RHS show tickets
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron. Shelley had been delayed there by Hunt's personal situation (his wife Marianne had been told she did not have long to live) and by Byron's complicated affairs. He hints that Edward Williams might sail back to the Villa Magni ahead of him. Hurriedly concluding the letter, Shelley hopes that Mary was reconciled to staying at the Villa Magni, where he had never been happier, but where she had been ill and wretchedly depressed. In a PS he tells her that he has found the manuscript of his translation
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron. Shelley had been delayed there by Hunt's personal situation (his wife Marianne had been told she did not have long to live) and by Byron's complicated affairs. He hints that Edward Williams might sail back to the Villa Magni ahead of him. Hurriedly concluding the letter, Shelley hopes that Mary was reconciled to staying at the Villa Magni, where he had never been happier, but where she had been ill and wretchedly depressed. In a PS he tells her that he has found the manuscript of his translation
L Hunt read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/ Giving voice to classic poetry. ---------------------------------------- Abou ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859) Abou ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw—within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom— An angel, writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, ‘What writest thou?’—The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, ‘The names of those who love the Lord.’ ‘And is mine one?’ said Abou. ‘Nay, not so,’ Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still, and said, ‘I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow men.’ The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And lo! Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest. First aired: 15 August 2007 For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index. To learn a little more about the poems and poets on Classic Poetry Aloud, join the mailing list. Reading © Classic Poetry Aloud 2009
Hunt read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of the past. --------------------------------------------------- Abou ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859) Abou ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw—within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom— An angel, writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, ‘What writest thou?’—The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, ‘The names of those who love the Lord.’ ‘And is mine one?’ said Abou. ‘Nay, not so,’ Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still, and said, ‘I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow men.’ The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And lo! Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest. First aired: 18 Aug 2007 For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index. Reading © Classic Poetry Aloud 2007
Classic FM presenter John Brunning reads Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt. Celebrate February, the month of love by downloading a new poem everyday from www.classicfm.com
Leigh Hunt read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of the past. --------------------------------------------------- The Nile by James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859) It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands,-- Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young world, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands. Then comes a mightier silence, stern and strong, As of a world left empty of its throng, And the void weighs on us; and then we wake, And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along Twixt villages, and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake.
L Hunt read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/ Giving voice to classic poetry. --------------------------------------------------- Abou ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859) Abou ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw—within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom— An angel, writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, ‘What writest thou?’—The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, ‘The names of those who love the Lord.’ ‘And is mine one?’ said Abou. ‘Nay, not so,’ Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still, and said, ‘I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow men.’ The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And lo! Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest. First aired: 15 August 2007 For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index. To learn a little more about the poems and poets on Classic Poetry Aloud, join the mailing list. Reading © Classic Poetry Aloud 2009
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