Laura Thompson - The Midnight Bell (Part 1)

The Moon Under Water

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Authors play a huge role in maintaining pub lore. Their words help us understand what our favourite drinking establishments were like in years gone by, and give us a chance to relive what many would describe as the "golden years" of ale. This week's guest is one such author, it's the wonderful Laura Thompson!

Laura's book "The Last Landlady" already sits upon a shelf in the Pub Library, so we're over the moon with her joining us in the correct realm. Like John and Robin she is a true pub romanticist, and she's certainly going to create something special.

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0:00.0	Before you came to earthly vale, before fire first lit the plains,
0:15.0	Before cobble, street and terminus,
0:24.3	before the hawk's wing had brushed the bow.
0:29.2	There was always one, and only one,
0:33.9	a glow that warmed aforetime its sen.
0:38.0	The moon underwater The moon under water
0:38.1	The Oh, what swithens day I find my send betwixt here thus.
1:14.6	Oh, this bar needs shining, and I know just the man to do it.
1:19.9	Johnny J. or John Robbins, the landlord of the moon underwater.
1:23.7	I'm going to get shining right now, I don't mind saying so.
1:27.2	And while I shine, this mystical pub,
1:30.2	it's nice to have a little bit of company, may I say. And to that end, sat across,
1:36.4	bar-stooled and bepewed ever so. Hello, Robin, dear friend. How are thee?
1:42.8	Yes, very good. You've got it really gleaming in here, I must say. You've really been polishing.
1:47.5	Well, I polished everything a butt from the blasted bar.
1:51.2	A butt from the blasted bar. Do you look a little polished yourself, John, if I may say so?
1:57.4	Well, wouldn't it be true if I'd had a sup from the King's eighth?
2:04.8	Before you arrived, I had a sup from the King's Eighth.
2:08.2	Oh, yeah.
2:09.2	Yeah, it's what us land lies, what we call the highest level of the cask.
2:19.0	Right.
2:19.7	You kind of skim off a bit of the cream for yourself.
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