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Month: December 2020

30th December 2020 Track Leave a comment 1970sfolkTrack of the Week

The Priest

Grantchester is a village just outside Cambridge (the UK city famous for its university, not the suburb of Boston, MA). It was the setting for a series of whodunnit short stories, The Grantchester Mysteries, by James Runcie. The books spawned a TV series called simply, Grantchester - the headline picture here is a still showing…Read more The Priest

22nd December 2020 Track Leave a comment 2020sjazzTrack of the Week

Answer Me

This week Spotify offered to tell me what I have missed this year. They had already done all the work for me; there on the home page was a playlist titled Missed Hits. My search for a track-of-the-week would be easy this time - there were bound to be one or two worthy candidates lurking…Read more Answer Me

14th December 2020 Track 1 Comment 2000s2020salternativeelectronicaprogressive rockTrack of the Week

11-11

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the armistice that ended the fighting of the first World War came into effect. Although, technically, the war had been neither won nor lost, effectively, it marked the defeat of the German armed forces. The peace treaty itself took another 6…Read more 11-11

7th December 2020 Track Leave a comment 2020spoetryTrack of the Week

Christmas Eve

It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas. The high street shops are busy (so I'm told), fairy lights are quietly materialising all over our village and this poem appeared on my radar recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZCZIXmC8GE Liz Berry is a poet steeped in the local culture of England's West Midlands. The area where she grew up…Read more Christmas Eve

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