“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
Lost in the Cosmos: Exploring Modernity and the Self with Walker Percy
Heavenly and Hellish Creatures in The Great Divorce feat. Pints with Jack co-host David Bates
Kingship in Camelot: The Quest for Justice in Arthurian Myth
The Cross and the Beatitudes: The Sermon on Mount Calvary
The Prince of Egypt: An Epic in Animation
Martyrdom and its Moral Dilemmas
The Heavenly Banquet and the Fictional Feasts that Make it a Reality
A Pilgrimage in Paintings: Tissot's “Life of Christ"
Books of Revelation: The Grace and Burden in Moments of Epiphany
Dracula: The Presence of Evil and the Power of Sacramentals
Nostalgia or Nihilism: The Need for Historical Honesty
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Elizabeth Lev: Founding Christian Art and Redeeming Roman Myth
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Sophie Scholl: Christian Conscience and the White Rose Resistance
Easter in Old English Poetic Imagination
Sacred Songs for Sorrowful Times: Music for Holy Week
Roald Dahl: Delight and Darkness
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