FLORILEGIUM - 27. For Pence and Spicy Ale

Radio Maria England

In Episode 27, we gather in a merry bunch of Big Ones and Little Ones to celebrate the Vigil Christmas Mass and read the Gospel together, until the Little Ones take charge and Kate and Antonia stitch together an episode out of scraps of loved literature on the theme of Christmas. Briefly featuring Katherine, Martin and Maria Earle; Theo, Antonia, Arthur and Gabriel Shack; Kate and Afra. The selection from Kate and Antonia's library includes: John Clare, GK Chesterton, Thomas Hardy, Luke Hathaway, Patrick Kavanagh and Olivier Clément.

Music: Malpas Wassail by The Watersons and Gabriel's Message by Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. You can follow them on SubStack at substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast

About the Creators

Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria.

Kate is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon.

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