Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England Episode 371, Parliament Recalled.

So give me for another shout out but I wanted to tell you about a podcast I've just been listening to actually which I think is really great and it's slightly unusual compared to my normal recommendations.

So it's called Kisses on a Postcard. You heard that right? Kisses, not answers. It's actually a full drama complete with songs and music in a very good way.

It's a musical essentially. It's ten episodes long and tells the true story of two boys, Jack and Terry, age 11 and 7, who in 1940 were evacuated from their home in London to a tiny village in Cornwall where they spent the whole war.

It's not just the songs and the drama of Tharn and Pulley went to the story, it's also quite moving and I loved the story behind how it came to be.

It's adapted by Dominic Frisbee from a story written by his father Terence Frisbee. Terence was a playwright, actor and director who died in 2020.

So I guess it's a sort of homage and very much a labour of love. It's also of course a portrait of an absolutely extraordinary event in British history, the massive actuation of nearly 4 million children at the start of the Second World War.

It's just been nominated for Best Podcast Series at the New York Festival Awards and it's a very professional piece of work. It has a cast of over 50 people, including John Owen Jones who was voted the Best of O's John Valjean in Les Mis, Rosie Cavaliero who you may know from Worsal Gummage and Double Olivia Award winner Marcia Warren who is Queen Mother in the Crown.

And there's over 20 quids. Kisses on a postcard is great, I advise you to give it a go. It's free on your podcast app, but if you like a CD format or if you also want to help Dominic get a bit of money back for his labour of love, go to kissesonapostcard.com or indeed to Bandcamp.

I hope you listen and I hope you enjoy it.

Now then, this week we're going to hear about yet another Parliament would you believe. Incidentally, in our rather irrational bursts of stubbornness, I've not called any of my episodes a sort of thing I should have been calling them like The Short Parliament or The Bishit Wars because well, I don't know why really.

But that is of course what we're talking about next, The Short Parliament.

And incidentally, from another episode there is a thing I found out which I need to share first of all.

So I mentioned a while ago that Lord and Strathard were bosom pals who wrote to each other discussing political tactics and things.

In the 1630s they both agreed that talented financial wizard though he was Richard Weston was a little bit exasperating and somewhat overcourcious.

And they so they had a nickname for him.

I didn't tell you what that nickname was and a long time listener Mr. C. Cat by name threw his hands up at my teasing.

Honestly though I wasn't teasing, I've just forgotten and couldn't find the reference.

But quite by chance I then learned that Billy the Cump Ship was called The Mora and it turns out that Mora is Latin for delay.

The ship was a present for his wife Mord, though nobody knows why Mord would have called it such a thing.

Nice idea for a Christmas present, though. I can imagine many people would like a fully manned warship complete with horses and acclaimed the King of England.

You can have that idea on me.

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