<p>Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at <a href="https://marcsalmanac.substack.com/">https://marcsalmanac.substack.com</a></p>
<p>With a poem by <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Selected-Poems-Thom-Gunn/dp/0571365086/">Thom Gunn, <em>The Hug</em>.</a></p>
<p>"<em>I dozed, I slept. My sleep broke on a hug...</em>"</p>
<p><strong>From the show:</strong></p>
<p>Opening/closing music courtesy of Chillhop: Philanthrope, Leavv - What Was Before <a href="https://chll.to/d6b0ec27">https://chll.to/d6b0ec27</a></p>
<p>On this day: 14th May, 1796, <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jenner-tests-smallpox-vaccine">Edward Jenner inaugurates the science of vaccination</a> by infecting his gardener's son with cowpox, protecting him from smallpox. And while the Covid-19 vaccines have understandably dominated this year's news, the successful trials of <a href="https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-04-23-malaria-vaccine-becomes-first-achieve-who-specified-75-efficacy-goal">the first highly effective malaria vaccine</a> by researchers from the University of Oxford has been another piece of enormously good news. Malaria currently kills 400,000 people every year.</p>
<p>On this day: 14th May, 1771, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/robert-owen-the-woolly-minded-cotton-spinner/">Robert Owen</a> is born in Newport, an important early voice for workers rights but also the father of English socialism, who refused to accept the failure of his more radical experiments</p>
<p>Music to wake you up – <a href="https://youtu.be/G7mOX7NE8ZI"><em>It's All Coming Back To Me Now</em> by Celine Dion</a></p>
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