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John Masefield

Mar 29, 2023
41:28
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
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2
Sea Fever
03:00 • 3min
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3
The Importance of the Running Tide
05:53 • 3min
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4
The Call of the Running Tide
08:55 • 3min
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5
The Everlasting Mercy
11:38 • 3min
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6
Dorma D-a-U-B-E-R
14:35 • 3min
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7
Part Reduce by Maizefield
17:51 • 2min
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8
The Kavi Linking Together From the Nest
20:13 • 1min
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9
The Partridge Alarm
21:42 • 2min
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10
The Lucky Crumple to the Clod Shot Clean
23:49 • 4min
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11
The Crumpled Corpses Have Forgotten All
27:35 • 3min
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12
The Crumpled Corpses Have Forgotten All
30:24 • 3min
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13
The Twilight Hears and the Darkness Heards
33:48 • 3min
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This week, we look at a John Masefield poem from 1911, in which a naked drunk runs through a town at midnight, threatening firefighters with their own hose-nozzles. The poems referenced are ‘Sea-Fever’, ‘The Everlasting Mercy’, ‘Dauber’ and ‘Partridges’.

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