V. Music
An evening habit: the wireless tuned low, the Home Service murmuring through whatever needs doing. This page will hold whatever Rufus is listening to, and why.
The Lark Ascending
Two 78s, HMV · Uncle Ned’s set, borrowed in 1938 and not yet returned
“The swallows went this week, so I have put on the one bird that never leaves. He wrote it in the summer of 1914, which tells you everything about what came next.”
Sing As We Go
A 78 of Mother’s, played until it hisses
“Sugar off the ration, and Mother has put Gracie on, which is what Mother does for victories. I was sixteen when the picture came out, with the mills on short time all round us, and pretended not to like it.”