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God Made the Countryside

The EssayFrom Pens to Ploughshares
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Historian Alan Crawford ponders his time spent as a monk in the countryside, and his admiration for Godfrey Blount and Maude King, writers and craftspeople who singled out the countryside as a God-given realm.

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Wed 4 Feb 200923:00
BBC Radio 3

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