15th May, 2020 – The Things That Haven't Been Done
The things that haven’t been done before,/ Those are the things to try...
Hello from Suffolk. Here's five minutes of civilised calm recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem: The Things That Haven’t Been Done Before by Edgar Guest.
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From the show:
Weekend Wodehouse: a visit to Blandings castle with Summer Lightning
On this day: May 15, 1718, James Puckle registers the first patent for a machine gun
On this weekend: May 16-17, 1943, Operation Chastise, better-known as the Dam Busters raid
Friday film: The Dam Busters
If you need some music to wake you up – how about Happy Does by Kenny Chesney:
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