“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
Phoebe: Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
Rachel: Mount Usher Gardens
Over the Garden Wall: Finding Dante in the Unknown
Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of Grace in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Autumnal Envy: A Season of Longing and Desire
Beauty in Brideshead Revisited: The Holy and the Hedonistic
The Golden Age of Musicals and the Desire for Beauty
The Universal Truths of C.S. Lewis, with Michael Ward
The World Turned Upside Down: Chesterton’s use of Paradox in Manalive and St. Francis of Assisi
The Silent Knight: Elizabeth Lev on St. Joseph in Art through the Ages
The Grace of Gardening: Encountering Christ in Creation
Jane Austen’s Moral Imagination: A Conversation with Haley Stewart
The Time That is Given Us: Productivity and Leisure in the Modern Age
The Humility and Extravagance of Christmas
Stories that Endure: Reading the Classics
Meaningful Remembrance: The Great War and its Commemoration
Doubles and Duplicity: Gothic Themes in The Woman in White Featuring Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
Stranger Things in Stranger Times: Navigating Nostalgia in the Digital Age
Tolkien: A Thoroughly Modern Medievalist featuring Dr. Holly Ordway
Dante and Creation: Encountering God in Eden, Featuring Matthew Rothaus Moser
Keeping Your Word: Unfashionable Virtues in North and South
Lost in the Cosmos: Exploring Modernity and the Self with Walker Percy
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