http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/iot/
This program summoned up for me a lost world where peasants working in
the fields heard the hours tolled all around them as monks and nuns
gathered for matins or vespers to pray for the souls of us all.
And, condemn it as you will, it's one that lasted some time, and, as
such, was the daily environment of our forefathers.
Far away across the fields
the tolling of the iron bell
calls the faithful to their knees
with its softly spoken magic spell.
(Pink Floyd)
Ed
