Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by William Blake, The Tyger.

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night..."

From the show:

Blake's illustrated poem, The Tyger

The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White

12th-century sword from the Battle of Fornham

Winchester cathedral

When I Get to Heaven, by John Prine

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