My podcasting colleague Paul Waters and I hosted a live We'd like a Word event this week. Our guest was poet, author, musician, artist, comedian and national treasure John Hegley, ably accomanied by poet and musician Clare Elstow. The podcast episode will be available to download and listen to very soon.
It was a fantastic evening.
The venue was pretty fantastic too.
Milton's Cottage is a timber-framed 16th-century building in the village of Chalfont St Giles. John Milton and his family moved there in 1665 to escape the Plague in London. It is the only extant building he ever lived in and it's also where he completed his best known work, Paradise Lost. The seeds for Paradise Regained were also sown here. The ground floor of the cottage is now a museum dedicated to Milton and his works. The four museum rooms contain the most extensive collection in the world on open display of 17th-century first editions of John Milton's works, both poetry and prose.
I did a longer blogpost about Milton's cottage (lots of photos) here.
And here's some video of the night:
John Hegley's website
Milton's Cottage website
We'd Like a Word podcast
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