“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing."
In our first episode back after the summer Phoebe and Rachel discuss the sense of longing found in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
Music: Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod
Hosts: Rachel Sherlock, Phoebe Watson
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Works Mentioned
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (illus. Inga Moore)
Audiobook: Read by Michael Hordern
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
The Pilgrim’s Regress by C.S. Lewis
‘Tinturn Abbey’ by William Wordsworth
‘The Buried Life’ by Matthew Arnold
‘The Day is Done’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not That It Matters by A.A. Milne
Tolkien On Fairy-stories, expanded edition, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Tolkien, Lewis, and The Wind in the Willows” by Roy Peachey, The Catholic World Reporter
“God’s Whispers in The Wind in the Willows” by Justin D Lyons, Bereans at the Gate
‘Little Gidding’ by T.S. Eliot
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
“The Longing of the Wind in the Willows” by Chris Wheeler, The Rabbit Room
Beyond the Wild Wood by Alan Jacobs, First Things
What We’re Enjoying at the Moment
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Publishing Catholic Voices with Mary Finnegan, Deputy Editor at Wiseblood Books
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