Tag: Penda’s Fen
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We Have Wandered Too Far…
Heard this on 6Music and was surprised to hear the dulcet tones of Alan Moore gracing ‘The Ghost of Watling St’ by Oddfellow’s Casino. Really nice and trippy, apparently written by request of John Higgs who has written a book about walking the whole of Watling Street. He’s more famous for a book about The…
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Penda’s Fen and Owl Service
On 21 March 1974 Penda’s Fen was Play for Today on the BBC, this strange tale of teenage homosexuality, Elgar and the Dream of Gerontius, the Midlands, ecology, the old and new gods, Britain and the last pagan king, Penda (oddly the image above does NOT appear in the film, only in shadow, although the…