Hey, it's Heather, and I want to remind you about our very special tours to the UK.

In 2017, we'll be doing tours focusing on the Even Song experience.

The Even Song service comes from Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer from the mid-16th century.

It's been dubbed the Atheist's Favorite Service because it requires so little and it gives so much. It's simply

divine choral music sung in some of the most historic chapels, abbeys and cathedrals in England.

We'll be spending 10 days visiting places like Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds,

Winchester and Windsor with walking tours, free time to explore,

and then gathering back each afternoon for the Evensong Service if you choose to attend.

It will be 10 days of beautiful countryside, historic cities and villages, and so, so much music. I invite you to go to Englandcast.com

slash tours for full itinerary and pricing information. Again, Englandcast, E-N-G-L-A-N-D, C-A-S-D,

Englandcast.com slash tours. Thanks so much, and now to the show.

Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast. I'm your host, Heather Tusco,

and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the

universe, and our connection to our own humanity. This is episode 50. Yay! It's another joint

episode with Melita Thomas of Tudor Times on Honor Lyle. And I have to say that we recorded

it in the evening and it was dinner time for my husband and three-year-old daughter, almost three.

And so I was sitting outside on the porch and you hear a lot of birds chirping in the background.

And I thought about editing them out.

I was going to mute them.

But then a couple people on the Facebook page said,

no, keep them in.

And they do sound really nice and springtimey and, well, it's summery.

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