Podcasts about shropshire lad

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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/104 A. E. Housman - 104 Poems By A. E. Housman Narrated by Graham Scott. Over one hundred poems by A. E. Housman, including the full text of both 'A Shropshire Lad', one of the best-loved collections in English poetry, and of 'Last Poems', the second volume of his verse to be published in the poet's lifetime. In simple, gently accessible language, the poet explores universal themes of life, death, love, and loss.

On this week's episode we're headed back to Shropshire in North West England, and Eleanor is telling a Devil tale with a twist...We start off chatting about St Killian, about whom Martin is decidedly unimpressed, after which we sidle on into Shropshire!In addition to talking about the Wrekin, A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, and the morbid nature of some of Shropshire's folk magic, we get the pastry out once again for this week's County Dish, Fidget Pie!After some folkloric chat about topics including Fulk Fitzwarin, Mitchell's Fold stone circle, and the witch Nanny Morgan, plus some excerpts from this week's devilishly good Local Legends interview with Shropshire native Haunted magazine's Amy Boucher, author of the outstanding Nearly Knowledgeable blog, it's on to the main event: Eleanor's story "A Game of Cards."Speak to you again on Thursday for our last Something Wicked bonus episode for the series, all about H.H. Holmes and, if you're a Patreon supporter, our Patreon Exclusive for July about England's Atlantis, the lost city of Dunwich!The Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon.Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England's 39 historic counties, exploring the history, folklore and traditions of the area, from ghosts and mermaids to mythical monsters, half-forgotten heroes, bloody legends, and much, much more. Then, and most importantly, the pair take turns to tell a new version of an ancient story from that county - all before discussing what that tale might mean, where it might have come from, and the truths it reveals about England's hidden past...Bonus Episodes are released on Thursdays (Magic and Medicines about folk remedies and arcane spells, Three Ravens Bestiary about cryptids and mythical creatures, Dying Arts about endangered heritage crafts, and Something Wicked about folkloric true crime from across history) plus Local Legends episodes on Saturdays - interviews with acclaimed authors, folklorists, podcasters and historians with unique perspectives on that week's county.With a range of exclusive content on Patreon, too, including audio ghost tours, the Three Ravens Newsletter, and monthly Three Ravens Film Club episodes about folk horror films from across the decades, why not join us around the campfire and listen in?Learn more at www.threeravenspodcast.com, join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/threeravenspodcast, and find links to our social media channels here: https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alfred Edward Housman was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England on March 26, 1859 and was the eldest of seven children. A year after his birth, Housman's family moved to nearby Bromsgrove, where the poet grew up and had his early education. In 1877, he attended St. John's College, Oxford and received first class honours in classical moderations.Housman became distracted, however, when he fell in love with his roommate, Moses Jackson. He unexpectedly failed his final exams, but managed to pass the final year and later took a position as clerk in the Patent Office in London for ten years.During this time, Housman studied Greek and Roman classics intensively, and, in 1892, he was appointed professor of Latin at University College, London. In 1911, he became professor of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge, a post he held until his death. As a classicist, Housman gained renown for his editions of the Roman poets Juvenal, Lucan, and Manilius, as well as his meticulous and intelligent commentaries, and his disdain for the unscholarly.Housman only published two volumes of poetry during his life: A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922). The majority of the poems in A Shropshire Lad, his cycle of sixty-three poems, were written after the death of Adalbert Jackson, Housman's friend and companion, in 1892. These poems center around themes of pastoral beauty, unrequited love, fleeting youth, grief, death, and the patriotism of the common soldier. After the manuscript had been turned down by several publishers, Housman decided to publish it at his own expense, much to the surprise of his colleagues and students.While A Shropshire Lad was slow to gain in popularity, the advent of war, first in the Boer War and then in World War I, gave the book widespread appeal due to its nostalgic depiction of brave English soldiers. Several composers created musical settings for Housman's work, deepening his popularity.Housman continued to focus on his teaching, but in the early 1920s, when his old friend Moses Jackson was dying, Housman chose to assemble his best unpublished poems so that Jackson might read them. These later poems, most of them written before 1910, exhibit a range of subject and form much greater than the talents displayed in A Shropshire Lad. When Last Poems was published in 1922, it was an immediate success. A third volume, More Poems, was released posthumously in 1936 by his brother, Laurence, as was an edition of Housman's Complete Poems (1939).Despite receiving acclaim as a scholar and a poet during his lifetime, Housman lived as a recluse, rejecting honors and avoiding the public eye. He died on April 30, 1936 in Cambridge.-bio via Academy of American Poets Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Read by Terry CasburnPoems included are: "When I was One-And-Twenty" & "A Shropshire Lad, XL" Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

The novel opens with mystery author Harriet Vane on trial for the murder of her former lover, Phillip Boyes: a writer with strong views on atheism, anarchy, and free love. Publicly professing to disapprove of marriage, he had persuaded a reluctant Harriet to live with him, only to renounce his principles a year later and to propose. Harriet, outraged at being deceived, had broken off the relationship. Following the separation, the former couple had met occasionally, and the evidence at trial pointed to Boyes suffering from repeated bouts of gastric illness at around the time that Harriet was buying poisons under assumed names, to demonstrate – so she said – a plot point of her novel then in progress. Returning from a holiday in North Wales in better health, Boyes had dined with his cousin, the solicitor Norman Urquhart, before going to Harriet's flat to discuss reconciliation, where he had accepted a cup of coffee. That night he was taken fatally ill, apparently with gastritis. Foul play was eventually suspected, and a post-mortem revealed that Boyes had died from acute arsenic poisoning. Apart from Harriet's coffee and the evening meal with his cousin (in which every item had been shared by two or more people), the victim appeared to have taken nothing else that evening. The trial results in a hung jury. As a unanimous verdict is required, the judge orders a re-trial. Lord Peter Wimsey visits Harriet in prison, declares his conviction of her innocence and promises to catch the real murderer. Wimsey also announces that he wishes to marry her, a suggestion that Harriet politely but firmly declines. Working against time before the new trial, Wimsey first explores the possibility that Boyes killed himself. Wimsey's friend, Detective Inspector Charles Parker, disproves that theory. The rich great-aunt of the cousins Urquhart and Boyes, Rosanna Wrayburn, is old and senile, and according to Urquhart (who is acting as her family solicitor) when she dies most of her fortune will pass to him, with very little going to Boyes. Wimsey suspects that to be a lie, and sends his enquiry agent Miss Climpson to get hold of Rosanna's original will, which she does in a comic scene exposing the practices of fraudulent mediums. The will in fact names Boyes as principal beneficiary. Wimsey plants a spy, Miss Joan Murchison, in Urquhart's office where she finds a hidden packet of arsenic. She also discovers that Urquhart had abused his position as Rosanna's solicitor, embezzled her investments, then lost the money on the stock market. Urquhart recognised that he would face inevitable exposure should Rosanna die and Boyes claim his inheritance. However, Boyes was unaware of the will's contents and Urquhart reasoned that if Boyes were to die first, nobody could challenge him as sole remaining beneficiary, and his fraud would not be revealed. After perusing A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (in which the poet likens the reading of serious poetry to King Mithridates' self-immunization against poisons) Wimsey suddenly understands what had happened: Urquhart had administered the arsenic in an omelette which Boyes himself had cooked. Although Boyes and Urquhart had shared the dish, the latter had been unaffected as he had carefully built up his own immunity beforehand by taking small doses of the poison over a long period. Wimsey tricks Urquhart into an admission before witnesses.

Welcome back to Episode Two of Broken Oars Summer Shorts Series - the book club for rowers where no books about rowing are discussed ...   (And that's a promise ... ).   Instead, to fill the golden dawns and endless twilights of summer, we're taking a whirl through some poets and poetry, leavened with the odd observation about the things that the Northern One used to know about before Covid and Long Covid bollocksed his brain: culture, history, why everything is an art, why artists are as full of crap as the rest of us, self-narration, why squaring early helps with developing a good catch ...   You know ...    Bowsider stuff.   In this episode, following on from our first episode deep dive into Thomas Hardy (and yes, we know: a deep dive into a native of Dorset is not a thing to be taken likely. We speak from experience when it comes to that, but it can be very rewarding, especially if you like rough scrumpy and cold sea swimming as the sun comes up. No, these are not metaphors ... ) we get stuck into the life and work of A. E. Housman.   A late-Victorian Classicist who caught the uneasy mood of late-nineteenth century Britain, Housman's first collection, A Shropshire Lad, appears, on the surface, to reflect the beliefs of his era: the vigour and promise of youth; that England's authentic spirit is held in her landscapes, particularly those of her countryside; and that perhaps something eternal and intrinsic has been lost in Britain's race to invent the modern world.   All of those themes are there, of course. The late-Victorian period is, after all, when the Victorian's literary obsession with little girls as symbols of purity and innocence gives way to celebrating young boys and men - fittingly enough in a culture that suggested that martial prowess had won Britain the empire.   But there is a deeper, resonant melancholy in Housman's work. On one level, this reflects the then-held sense that although British Imperial power had never been greater, there was a feeling that the best had past; that the only way to fulfil youthful promise was to die young and enshrine its potential rather see that potential failed to live up to; that something, indeed, had been lost.   On the other, it speaks more potently of Housman's own unrequited passion for a fellow male undergraduate; what he felt he had lost; that the golden promise of his own youth as manifested in those feelings had not been realised for all his professional success. From this perspective, the landscapes of the blue-remembered hills, read as England's lost pastoral spirit remaining in the land by some, are actually the internal landscapes of the heart, and what Housman himself had lost.   Sounds weird? Yeah. The Victorians were, as the youth of today say, completely mental. So pull up a chair, get a glass of something cold and good, or hot and steaming, and let's dive into an object lesson of how they might be our ancestors but they might as well be aliens for all we have in common with them.   Except for the idea that Britain's best days are behind her - that one's a hardy perennial thrown out regularly by everyone from scoundrel politicos to offshore press barons alike. Plus ca change, eh ... ?   ----- Try listening to us with a coffee - and if you're feeling generous, stand us one.   Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/brokenoarsD?new=1   Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/brokenoarspodc1   Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thelandingstage/                                           www.instagram.com/brokenoarsindoors/

Episode: 2809 Laurence Housman designs an edition of Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market.  Today, Goblins, sisterly love, and a masterpiece of book design.

Episode: Chedworth Villa -- then the Roman, now you and I.  Today, Rome, in England.

In the sixth episode of Modern-ish Poets Series 1, Mark and Seamus discuss the life and work of Worcestershire lad A. E. Housman, whose imaginative poetic landscape of a vanishing England in A Shropshire Lad, with its expression of the agony of thwarted love which can find no resolution, became a runaway bestseller during and after the First World War.This is an extract from the episode. To listen in full and to our other Close Readings series, sign up:Directly in Apple Podcasts here: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps here: lrb.me/closereadingsSeamus Perry is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Mark Ford is Professor of English Literature at University College London.This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in October 2018, and is now available in full exclusively for Close Readings subscribers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He's back! York Gate Head Gardener Ben Preston returns to wow Alan Gray (East Ruston Old Vicarage) and Thordis with inspirational plants, plus some very exciting news! Next week more wonders from New Zealand, Salvias and Monardas! PLANT LIST Lathyrus odoratus 'Betty Maiden' Salvia atrocyanea Dianthus 'Elizabethan Pink' Geranium 'Rozanne' Geranium wlassovianum 'Lakwijk Star' Geranium 'Tiny Monster' Geranium 'Dilys' Dahlia 'Hadrian's Summerwine' Dahlia 'Hadrian's Bubblegum' Dahlia 'Magenta Star' Dahlia merckii Salvia microphylla 'Cerro Potosi' Persicaria runcinata 'Purple Fantasy' Rosa moyesii Rosa glauca Rosa 'Escimo' Rosa 'A Shropshire Lad' Muehlenbeckia astonii Corokia cotoneaster 'Little Prince'

A Shropshire Lad, XXXby Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I tooShiver now, 'tis nothing new.More than I, if truth were told,Have stood and sweated hot and cold,And through their reins in ice and fireFear contended with desire.Agued once like me were they,But I like them shall win my wayLastly to the bed of mouldWhere there's neither heat nor cold.But from my grave across my browPlays no wind of healing now,And fire and ice within me fightBeneath the suffocating night. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iwillreadtoyou.substack.com/subscribe

If you love to sit down with articles about gardening, then you've undoubtedly read something beautiful penned by this week's guest on The Talking Dirty Podcast. Matt Collins writes for The Guardian, The Telegraph, Hortus, Toast...the list goes on and on. Somehow he also devotes his time to being Head Gardener for The Garden Museum in London and this week he's sharing his story, planting schemes from the Museum and inspiration for his own new garden, with Alan Gray (East Ruston Old Vicarage) and Thordis. PLANT LIST Narcissus 'Cedric Morris' Ribes sanguineum 'Koja' Dahlia tampaulipana Dahlia imperialis Dahlia tenuicaulis Lonicera nitida Plantago media Geranium palmatum Geranium maderense Sisyrinchium striatum Phlomis russeliana Digitalis canariensis Teucrium fruticans Juniperus virginiana 'Grey Owl' Vitex Crambe maritima Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' Nepeta × faassenii Sorbus aria Pulsatilla vulgaris Iris 'Benton Olive' Iris 'Benton Farewell' Iris 'Benton Evora' Cercis canadensis Cercis siliquastrum Crataegus × lavalleei 'Carrierei' Rosa 'Jacqueline du Pré' Rosa 'A Shropshire Lad' Abutilon 'Orange Hot Lava' Passiflora × exoniensis Passiflora caerulea Passiflora × violacea 'Victoria'

Recorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 11, 2022. www.poets.org

The Mike Church Show-How To Forget Doom And Gloom And Find Joy In Beautiful Music with Michael Kurek  SPECIAL GUEST - Michael Kurek  Who is Dr Kurek - American composer Michael Kurek is the author of the recently released book, The Sound of Beauty: A Composer on Music in the Spiritual Life (Ignatius Press) and the composer of the recent Billboard No. 1 classical album The Sea Knows (Parma Recordings). Composer Laureate - it is a lifetime appointment David Van Vacktor - was the last Composer Laureate recipient  The story w/ the brooms and all was already there. FOUNDERS TRADIN POST - The Sound of Beauty by Michael Kurek  We have dumbed down our music even more. Our minds are even more closed then when he was around. In 1901 there were more pianos in homes than bathtubs! People used to get around the piano - there was always at least ONE person in the family that could sing and/or play the piano. March 18th - concert in Nashville - Tales From the Realm of Faerie HEADLINE: Tales From the Realm of Faerie: Michael Kurek's New Symphony by Joseph Pearce MORE MUSIC from Michael Kurek - there is still more and I'll try to get some more shows out to you. John Phillips Sousa - John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches. He is known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford. HEADLINE: John Philip Sousa: 10 Things You Don't Know About The Man Behind the Marches by Jean-Marie Bralley  Today in pop culture, you can learn only one cord on a guitar and roll with it. You used to have to have some sort of talent to be considered ‘good' in music. George Butterworth - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad. MORE ON BUTTERWORTH - Butterworth, George WIFE - Crystal Kurek - BEST PERFORMER in a Musical  Website - https://crystalkurek.com/ Homeschool connections - Great Composers Course and The Sound of Beauty/Music Appreciation, The Basics of Music History Our Readers And Listeners Keep Us In Print & On The Air! Click here to subscribe to The CRUSADE Channel's Founders Pass Member Service & Gain 24/7 Access to Our Premium, New Talk Radio Service. www.crusadechannel.com/go What Is The Crusade Channel? The CRUSADE Channel, The Last LIVE! Radio Station Standing begins our LIVE programming with our all original CRUSADE Channel News hosted by Ron Staffard. Coupled with Mike “The King Dude” Church entertaining you during your morning drive and Rick Barrett giving you the news of the day and the narrative that will follow during your lunch break! We've interviewed over 300 guests, seen Brother Andre Marie notch his 200th broadcast of Reconquest; The Mike Church Show over 1200 episodes; launched an original LIVE! News Service; written and produced 4 Feature Length original dramas including The Last Confession of Sherlock Holmes and set sail on the coolest radio product ever, the 5 Minute Mysteries series!  Now that you have discovered The Crusade, get 30 days for FREE of our premium News-Talk Radio service just head to: http://crusadechannel.com  Did you know about Beautiful Music? If you are interested in supporting small business, be sure to check out the official store of the Crusade Channel, the Founders Tradin Post! Not to mention our amazing collection of DVD's, Cigars, T-Shirts, bumper stickers and other unique selection of items selected by Mike Church!

In this episode, Joel sits down to chat with the popular cook Adam Purnell aka 'Shropshire Lad'. If you haven't got round to watching Crazy Delicious yet, you may be wondering who Shropshire Lad Adam Purnell is?   Before appearing on Netflix Crazy Delicious, Adam Purnell was a lad from Shropshire with a love for cooking and fishing.   Adam is a self-taught cook and got his enthusiasm for cooking from his father. He was introduced to exciting flavours and recipes from a young age and was always encouraged to get involved with the cooking at home. His passion clearly shone through during his time on Crazy Delicious as the winner of the first episode of the series.   A huge supporter of all things Shropshire (Codebreak's home county), Adam uses local ingredients to create amazing dishes which he shares with his thousands of followers on Instagram. Following successful cookalongs, food pop-ups, and food festival appearances, Shropshire Lad is the next big thing in the UK food world.    Find out how Adam built his personal brand and went from a backyard cook to a TV star in this episode of the Stay Hungry podcast.   KEY TAKEAWAYS   Pop-ups are a great way to get started with a food business. It has advantages over the street food model. Social media is a powerful tool. It is how Netflix invited Adam to appear on Crazy Delicious. Success on Instagram bought in influencer work. Thinking creatively and offering something different, creates huge demand, fast. Diversify your business, to learn new skills and attract different types of customers. It's a great way to build your brand. Share your knowledge and what you do in as many different ways as possible. Put yourself front and centre of your business.   BEST MOMENTS ‘My Instagram blew up. I probably picked up 10,000 followers. ´ ‘I want to be with the people, I don´t want to be stuck in the kitchen.' VALUABLE RESOURCES Stay Hungry podcast series Stay Hungry Bestselling Book   If you're fed up with wasting your time and money on marketing that doesn't generate enquiries and sales - hop on a Codebreak discovery call.    After all, getting lots of 'likes' on your Facebook page ain't gonna make your boat go faster. But up-to-date marketing techniques that attract buyers and action takers instead of tyre kickers will. The Codebreak team are here to show you how or do it for you - https://www.codebreak.co.uk/discovery-call/   EPISODE RESOURCES Website: http://shropshirelad.co.uk/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shropshire.lad/?hl=en Fire Cooking Masterclass - https://www.hundredhouse.co.uk/live-fire-masterclass/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ezfXIxPlUGyzQUBojAk3A Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AdamPurnellShropshireLad Off Menu Podcast - https://www.offmenupodcast.co.uk/ Morgan´s Country Butchers - https://morganscountrybutchers.co.uk/ Keith Alderson´s Butchers - https://www.facebook.com/keithaldersonbutchers Article about Red Brick Café Wellington Market - https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/business/2021/10/21/wellington-entrepreneur-zak-sees-performance-cafe-dream-come-true/ ABOUT THE GUEST Shropshire lad Adam Purnell is best known for winning episode one of the hit Netflix show Crazy Delicious. Since then, Adam has won the hearts of food fanatics, with his love for hearty home-cooking and innovative ideas.   Adam Purnell has become a regular on our TV screens after Crazy Delicious landed on Netflix at the start of the year. He has recently featured on the popular UK TV show Escape to the Country, and even has his own YouTube channel where he shares his popular BBQ-based dishes! ABOUT THE HOSTS   Joel Stone Joel started his working life as a graphics designer. Pretty quickly he got bitten by the social media bug which showed him the power of marketing and set him on a new career path. In 2015, Joel co-founded Codebreak. A full-service marketing agency that has bought together media experts that specialise in providing the hospitality industry with design and promotional solutions. Branding and targeted marketing combined under one roof.   Andy Rao Andy studied Psychology at university, which was his springboard into the world of marketing. He realised that to sell successfully you have to put yourself into the shoes of your customer and understand their why. Andy started his marketing career working closely with dozens of Shropshire businesses, all of whom had something different to sell. During that time, Andy picked up the skills he uses today to tailor each marketing solution to his client´s businesses, the industries they work in, and the different types of customers they need to reach.   CONTACT THE HOSTS Website - https://www.codebreak.co.uk/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/codebreak   Podcast Description Breaking down all things marketing, design, and geek culture. Hear from Codebreak co-founders Andy and Joel as well as the experienced team. On this podcast expect to find marketing top tips, useful insights, and expert advice that you can apply to your business.   So, if you're fed up with wasting your time and money on marketing that doesn't generate enquiries and sales - hop on a Codebreak discovery call.    After all, getting lots of 'likes' on your Facebook page ain't gonna make your boat go faster. But up-to-date marketing techniques that attract buyers and action takers instead of tyre kickers will. The Codebreak team are here to show you how or do it for you - https://www.codebreak.co.uk/discovery-call/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I get floored every time by these six songs of lost youth, love and life written on the cusp of World War 1 by a young composer who didn't make it through. Raw, simple and unforgettable. Music here, with the terrific partnership of Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside, on Youtube or Spotify.  Listening time: 21 mins (Intro podcast, 8'; music 13') Here you'll find all the words to the songs.   Recorded in inescapable heavy rain, so apologies for the sound quality on this episode!   What do you think? Let us know with a comment at Cacophonyonline.com   If you like it, why not buy a download? You can get that here in top quality lossless sound for an English fiver or elsewhere. Cacophony doesn't make any money from it, but the musicians will make much more than through streaming. You can support Cacophony here.      

 This week's Tale takes place in 63 BC. The setting, the kingdom of Pontus – a once powerful Black Sea empire – now a region of Eastern Turkey. Mithridates VI Eupator paces, knowing his time is up. Like Hannibal, he spent decades at war with Rome – and like Hannibal he would meet his end like a caged lion. A renowned freedom fighter, he was also a genocidal despot. A paranoid megalomaniac, raised to believe a series of comets and other omens marked him out as a messiah. Saviour of the East. King of Kings. In short, Mithridates was a complex guy Today, we discuss the Poison King of Pontus. You can read the episode here. Please leave a like, give us a follow. Share the channel – it will help Tales grow. I post a new episode every fortnight, Wednesday night New Zealand time. Tales of History and Imagination is on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. I also write a weekly Wordpress Blog.   Music, writing, narration, mixing all yours truly. Sound FX were from several free sites downloaded to laptop in 2019. The Mithridates poem is a section from A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad. I normally save bibliographies for the Patreon, but there is only one source for 95% of this Tale – The Poison King by Adrienne Mayor.   About the Author: Simone Whitlow is an academic, competitive quizzer, songwriter and musician. Her favourite part of A Shropshire Lad is the bit which starts “Into my heart an air that kills, From yon far country blows.” Hell, we all have ‘happy highways where we went, and cannot come again' right? Transgender, she uses she/her pronouns.   

A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence. In the first four podcasts, we hear from Year 10 students at OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY. We begin with DULCE ET DECORUM EST. CONTRIBUTORS: William Harrison, Mariyah Hoque, Malachi Headley, Ivo Drury & Samra Rana. MUSIC: George Butterworth, A Shropshire Lad, licensed courtesy of Naxos. In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series. A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.

A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence. In the final podcast in our series, we visit the archives of MAGDALEN COLLEGE to hear from archivist DR CHARLOTTE BERRY and archives assistant BEN TAYLOR about some of the items in the College's First World War collection. MUSIC: George Butterworth, A Shropshire Lad, licensed courtesy of Naxos. In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series. A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.

Shrewsbury Prison that we see today was built in 1877 having been built to replace an earlier Georgian prison dating back to 1791 on the same grounds. This prison was finally closed in 2013 having seen countless executions during this time. Shrewbury Prison, or 'The Dana' as it is also known, has a harrowing history and is a location with a vast array of different areas to explore. There is much reported paranormal activity here. Why not listen for yourself and decide if you think the energy of former inmates linger in the now empty cells and various prison rooms..... Thank you for listening. If you wish to support the Haunted History Chronicles Podcast then please click on the Patreon link. https://www.patreon.com/Haunted_History_Chronicles Please use the links below or on the website to keep in touch via our social media pages : to ask questions and review other content linked to this episode. Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/HauntedHistoryChronicles/?ref=bookmarks Twitter: https://twitter.com/hauntedhistory4 Instagram: instagram.com/haunted_history_chronicles Website: https://www.podpage.com/haunted-history-chronicles/ Sources https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-shropshire-21917476 The Georgian prison short video https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-38797543 Deadman's Island information https://www.prisonhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Guide-to-the-Criminal-Prisons-of-Nineteenth-Century-England-R1.pdf (page 978 for this specific prison) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16243850 further information about the infamous Black Panther and his crimes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hynS1FRZj24 Trailer for the Paranormal Lockdown episode where they investigated Shrewsbury Prison https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Shropshire-Lad-Audiobook/B0052XUSCA?source_code=M2M30DFT1BkSH11221601A7&&ipRedirectOverride=true&gclid=Cj0KCQiAlsv_BRDtARIsAHMGVSYYEKqg0JhLe9Qx4tjRAfkHcdrvyC2AvefVTNCl0ecSZjVqr7ePgcsaAoYsEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds Link to audible where you can listen to A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Houseman --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hauntedchronicles/message

Today I am talking to translator and baritone George Roberts who is currently doing a postgraduate degree in voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In our chat George talks about the rhythm and melody inherent in the written word, the fascinating journey of translating a text from German or Italian to English, and how his work in the publishing industry and his love of singing influence each other daily.George Robarts is a baritone and prizewinning translator based in London, where he is a postgraduate at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, studying singing with Robert Dean. He is a regular song recitalist, with recent highlights including Butterworth's Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte, Schumann's Dichterliebe and Vaughan Williams's Songs of Travel. George graduated with first-class honours in German and Italian from New College, Oxford, in 2017, where his lead roles in student operas included Mozart's Figaro, Purcell's Aeneas and Monteverdi's Orfeo. After graduating, George worked for three years as an editor at a commercial publishing house, while also working as a freelance translator. His first book translation, The Wisdom of Old Dogs by Elli H. Radinger, was published by Mirror Books in 2019 and has sold over 10,000 copies. In 2020, he won third prize in the International Humanities Non-Fiction Translation Competition, awarded by the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association in association with Frankfurt Book Fair New York. https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-wisdom-of-old-dogs-lessons-in-life-love-and-friendship/9781912624904 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wisdom-Old-Dogs-Lessons-friendship/dp/1912624907/ Twitter: @GeorgeRobarts

A day before the pubs closed AL was lucky enough to visit The Wood Brewery, home to the famous Shropshire Lad bitter. This episode had been in the planning for a long time. Wrought with the constant bombardment of crisis in Shropshire, we are so happy to finally bring this episode to you. The episode begins with AL following Rory around the brewery while he expertly explains the process in how Wood's make their delicious beer. After the tour AL and Rory meet up with Wood's owner Stephen O'Neill in a cosy corner of the Plough Inn (home of the Wood Brewery) and they record a nice calm podcast. Stephen and Rory teach AL about the history of Wood's Brewery, about the upcoming events that are coming up and about how they make their beer taste the way it does. Then the guys get down to tasting some beer, (yes AL breaks his Keto vows!) they taste 5 products, one of which Wood's is very proud of. Find out why further on in the episode.  It was such an honour to be welcomed into Wood's Brewery and AL was astounded by the hospitality shown to him and would like to say a huge thank you to Rory and Stephen for being so kind. Check out the Wood's website here and keep up to date with things, especially with the recent current events - http://www.woodbrewery.co.uk/

AL, Jules and DeeDee spend an hour getting to know local and now TV superstar Adam Purnell or as some may know him as Shropshire Lad. Adam tells us where his passion for cooking comes from and how it helps him in his day job to bring people together. Adam appeared on the Channel 4 TV series 'Crazy Delicious' where he was pit against 2 other chefs in a competition to win the coveted Golden Apple. Find out how Adam ended up on the show, some inside info on how it was made, how Adam thought out and created his dishes for the show and it all went down for him. There are some nice shout-outs for local suppliers that helped Adam on his journey too. 

The complete audio is available for purchase from Audible.com: https://adbl.co/2NOnSqw Last Poems By: A. E. Housman Narrated by: Graham Scott Last Poems is the second volume of A. E. Housman's verse to be published in the poet's lifetime. Compiled to present to a dying friend, they poignantly explore in the same gentle, lyrical manner many of those themes of life, death, love, and loss that run throughout his hugely popular first collection, A Shropshire Lad.

The complete audio is available for purchase at Audible,com: https://adbl.co/2mKSz59 A Shropshire Lad By A.E.Housman Narrated by Graham Scott One of the best-loved collections in English poetry, A. E. Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' deals in simple, gently accessible language, with universal themes of life, death, love, and loss, set against the backdrop of the timeless Shropshire countryside.

PODCAST: 28 Apr 2013 Sig - Uncle Bernard's - Tickled Pink 01 - The Female Drummer/strong> - Steeleye Span02 - The Lincolnshire Poacher - Dr Faustus03 - The Waters of Tyne - Bob Fox04 - A Shropshire Lad - John Betjeman05 - Trip to Bavaria/Bill Sutherland/Kenmay House - Will Atkinson06 - Geordie - Martin Carthy07 - My Boy Jack - David Gibb and Elly Lucas08 - Adlestrop - Barnaby Edwards09 - Brigg Fair - Jackie Oates10 - Spencer the Rover - Corncrow11 - The Doffing Mistress - Annie Briggs*12 - The Streets of London - Ralph McTell13 - I Was A Young Man - The Owl Service14 - Lovely on the Water - Coope Boyes and Simpson15 - Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen (read by Richard Burton)16 - The Battle of the Somme - The Albion Band17 - Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket - Morris On18 - A Place Called England - June Tabor19 - 10,000 Miles - Nic Jones20 - Grandfathers/He Played His Ukulele as the Ship Went Down/Mickey Mouse's Son andDaughter - Flowers and Frolics21 - Some Old Salty - Lal Waterson and Oliver Knight22 - The New St George - Dave Burland Sig - Uncle Bernard's - Tickled Pink

It's the time of year when opera seasons and school years start, so it's time for The Diction Police to get back on track, too! This week and next our topic is English Diction with British baritone Simon Neal, who is here in Dresden singing in Henze's opera We Come To The River. Our text for today is A. E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees" and we concentrate on the multiple phonetic functions of the letter O in English, final Y in words like "twenty" and "fifty" and a little bit about legato singing and consonants. A. E. Housman was Professor of Latin at Cambridge famous for his studies and research in his field, but he was also a poet most famous to us for his book of poetry A Shropshire Lad from which we get "Loveliest of Trees". After being turned down by several publishers, he published it himself, and it has become a favorite source of texts for many composers, so you'll find many settings of "Loveliest of Trees": the Butterworth that Simon mentions I found on YouTube with John Shirley-Quirk and Martin Isepp plus many student performances of the John Duke version (which is the one I have in my ears, not Celius Dougherty as I thought!). For anyone who needs the visual since I didn't talk about what the letters look like, the phonetic letters that come up on this episode are: [ʌ] the stressed version of the English schwa--called an upside down V, but was originally an A without the crossbar [ə] a regular schwa, which in English is related to an A sound [ɑ] dark A (but I want you to sing them bright [a] !) [ɒ] the upside down dark A--this occurs in British English, not in American. For a refresher on this, check out Episode 57 and Jason Nedecky's worksheet on pronunciation shifts between British Received Pronunciation and American Standard specifically under "short O" [ɪ] open I [o] closed O, which is not as closed and round as German or French [ʊ] open U (which I keep calling the "cookie" vowel) [u] closed U, which is not as closed and round as German or French If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please feel free to contact me here, at the Facebook page, on Twitter @dictionpolice or you can email me directly at ellen@ellenrissinger.com

http://www.andystreasuretrove.com/andystreasuretrove.com/Media/ATTSF%20Episode%20%2311%20Levelated.mp3.mp3 ()Episode 11 starts with two potential theme songs for Andy’s Treasure Trove submitted by listener and friend David Lisle, followed by Andy’s interview with British actor, writer and director Terence Davies. Born in 1945 in Liverpool, England, Terence Davies was the youngest of 10 children in a Catholic working-class family who suffered with an abusive father, bullies at school, the abuses of the Catholic Church and his own legendary self-loathing for being gay. After a shut-down adolescence he spent years as an accountant. He got into acting and then writing and filmmaking. His first 3 short films made in the 1980's entitled Children, Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration later became known as The Terence Davies Trilogy. They were semi-autobiographical glimpses into the harrowing life of torment experienced by Davies in post-WWII Liverpool. In his first feature film, 1988's Distant Voices, Still Lives, the family again lives in the shadow of a monstrously abusive father, this time played by the great British character actor Pete Postlethwaite, whom Davies says is the only actor to play a member of his family who actually looked like the person they were portraying. Andy talks to Terence Davies about the 1992 film The Long Day Closes, a beautiful film centering on the favorite time of Davies’ childhood between the time his abusive father died and the family could relax a little, and the onset of his own highly fraught adolescence. They talk about several of his favorite cinematic techniques including his re-contextualizing of fragments of soundtracks from other movies, about the lost tradition of public singing in Britain, and of the chronic low self-esteem that haunts this great artist. Also about his new documentary/essay film about Liverpool entitled Of Time and the City, opening on Jan. 21 at Film Forum in NYC following a buzz-generating special screening at the Cannes film festival last year. Terence Davies is also being honored at New York's Museum of Modern Art this week. In an article in the New York Times yesterday (Jan. 11th), Dennis Lim compared Terence Davies with the English singer Morrissey in that they have both made a beautiful body of work based on misery. Andy spoke to Terence Davies following a chance meeting at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley California. See keywords, links and a photo below: Keywords and Links: Andy’s Treasure Trove online store, http://www.andystreasuretrove.com/ (www.andystreasuretrove.com), Terence Davies, theme music, theme songs, David Lisle, The Great Hall of 100 Treasure Boxes, Liverpool, England, abusive father, Children, Madonna and Child, Death and Transfiguration, The Terence Davies Trilogy, Distant Voices, Still Lives, Pete Postlethwaite, Postlewaite, The Long Day Closes, The Neon Bible, The House of Mirth, Film Forum, Cannes Film Festival, New York Times, Dennis Lim, Morrissey, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, Leigh McCormack, autobiographical films and plays, T.S. Eliott’s Four Quartets, Brueckner, depression, The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Meet Me In St. Louis, 20th Century Fox Fanfare, Randy Newman’s Uncle Alfred Newman, Nat King Cole, Stardust, cinematic look, technique, testing, light, texture, Anaglypta textured wallpaper, Christopher Hobbs, film editing, timing, A Shropshire Lad, George Butterworth, British Film Institute Fellow, public and private singing in Great Britain, popular music, lyrics, Cole Porter, vulgarization and decline of most artforms in the last 40 years, Rogers and Hart, Hammerstein, Hoagy Carmichael, Great Period of American Songwriting, Lorenz Hart, Of Time And The City, BBC, Listen With Mother, Williamson Square, Berceuse (lullaby) from The Dolly Suite by Gabriel Faure, Alchemy, Magic, Andy’s Treasure Trove Listener Call-in Line: 415-508-4084. A personal...