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At this time in November we remember the sacrifice that hundreds of thousands of British soldiers made with their lives as they fought in the First World War (and remember that millions died overall). Many songs are associated with this war, but are there songs connected to earlier battles? The simple answer is "Yes" and in this episode Mike collects together some of those found in the Baring Gould Song Collection.

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Barbara Griggs: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857

Pete Coe: https://petecoe.co.uk/

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In this episode of The Parson and the Songmen we join Mike at Ashwater Church, in the far west of Devon, for a day of 'ringing and singing'.

One Day In October are the first four words of a very special song that the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould collected, telling of a bell ringing competition that took place at Ashwater church some two hundred years ago.

For the last two years this event has been remembered in the form of a day centred around bell ringing, organised by Jon Bint, Vice-Chair of the Devon Association of Ringers and Marilyn Tucker from Devon-Based Wren Music.

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Mike's website: mikebosworth.uk

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Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group: https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

Simon Mayor: mandolin.co.uk

Mike O'Connor: http://www.lyngham.co.uk/

Barbara Griggs: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857

Pete Coe: https://petecoe.co.uk/

Castle Heritage Centre, Bude: https://www.thecastlebude.co.uk/

Devon Association of Ringers: https://www.devonbells.co.uk/

Wren Music: https://www.wrenmusic.co.uk/

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The poet John Keats called Autumn the 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'. A time for reflection and also a time when 'all is safely gathered in' before the onset of winter.

Those words, of course, come from the harvest hymn We Plough The Fields And Scatter, and in this episode of The Parson And The Songmen we discover the origins of what we know as The Harvest Festival church service and find out more about the man behind its creation - Robert Stephen Hawker, the Vicar of Morwenstow in North Cornwall. Hawker was known to The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould who saw something of himself in this larger than life, multi-talented, eccentric figure.

So, let's join Mike, in conversation with local historian and Hawker enthusiast, Matt Thomas, Outreach Officer at the Castle Heritage Centre, Bude.

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Mike's website: mikebosworth.uk

Podcast producer: jontidball@hotmail.co.uk

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Mike's YouTube page for Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould songs:
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Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024: https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

Simon Mayor, ace mandolinist: mandolin.co.uk

Mike O'Connor, musicologist and musician: http://www.lyngham.co.uk/

Barbara Griggs, Cornish-based Harpist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Arganteilin-Harp-Cornwall/dp/0954106857

Pete Coe, One Man Folk Industry: https://petecoe.co.uk/

Matt Thomas, local historian and Hawker Enthusiast - Outreach Officer, Castle Heritage Centre, Bude: https://www.thecastlebude.co.uk/