Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com

With a poem by Rudyard Kipling, The Way Through The Woods.

"They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago..."

From the show:

Proverbs 17:17

Boswell's Life of Johnson

On this day: 19th October, 1781, Lord Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington at Yorktown, ending the American Revolutionary War

On this day: 19th October, 1889, Arthur Satherley, country music pioneer, was born in Bedminster

Music to wake you up – Living in a Ghost Town by The Rolling Stones

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