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Jenny Toledo

The Thread of Life, Woven in Song

Author: Jenny Toledo

The Prescient

Listen to: The Prescient A song about sight before the world can see The Prescient is a song about the strange burden of seeing ahead. It stands in that lonely place where intelligence, instinct, imagination, and warning all meet. Some people glimpse the shape of tomorrow before the world has learned the language to describe […]

Under The Red Robin Tree

Listen: Under The Red Robin Tree The Tale of Buttons A Winter’s Unexpected Mercy It is often in the bleakest seasons of the year, when frost presses its hard palm against the windowpane and the wind threads itself through chimney and keyhole, that Providence bestows her most unexpected mercies. Such was the case one winter’s […]

All The Birds Are Gone

Listen to: All The Birds Are Gone A Tale of Silence and Defiance It was in the waning days of winter’s third grey month, when the skies withheld both star and mercy, that there walked a girl named Jenny. Her years were not so many as to make her a woman, yet neither were they […]

White Feather

Listen to: White Feather A Story of Defiance and Memory The Untamed Land of White Feather It is among the red basins and untamed reaches of land, where neither track nor tally has staked its full dominion, that there unfolds the tale of a youth known as White Crow. He was no child of hearth […]

Where The Kop Still Weeps

Listen: Where The Kop Still Weeps Where the Kop Still Weeps A Tale of Memory and Mourning The Echo of Empire and the Football Ground It is a sombre truth, too often repeated in the ledger of Empire, that the glories of the football ground and the horrors of the battlefield were not always kept […]

When The Flames Looked Back

Listen: When the Flames Looked Back When the Flames Looked Back Village Silence and Memory There are certain villages where silence itself seems to have a history, as though the very air has been tutored to hush. In such a place, pressed between fields that knew both famine and feast, the tale is still whispered […]

The Ballad of Bill Tilley

Listen: The Ballad of Bill Tilley The Ballad of Bill Tilley Yorkshire Mining Tragedy Remembered Bill Tilley’s First Day in the Yorkshire Mines. On a Monday as bleak and unyielding as the cobbles of a Yorkshire street, young Bill Tilley rose with the dawn. The air was sharp with mist, the lamps guttered faintly, and […]

Rocket

Listen to Rocket The Steam Engine That Changed England’s Pace The Dawn of Rocket’s Legacy It was in the smoke-hazed dawn of England’s new industrial century that there emerged a marvel so unlike the gilded spectacles of courts and palaces, yet more enduring than many a coronation. The marvel was christened Rocket, though no flame […]

Miss Kelly Sears

Listen to: Miss Kelly Sears A Voice Born in the Grey Years In the grey years when ration books still governed supper tables and the docks of the northern coast rattled with more hunger than coin, there was heard a voice that seemed to slip between the stones of back-to-back houses. It belonged to Kelly […]

Marigolds For Danny

Stream & Listen: Marigolds For Danny Marigolds for Danny A Story of Love’s Daily Vigil A Garden of Memory and Devotion In the far corner of her own small garden at home, shaded by the watchful arms of an old yew, blooms a bed of marigolds. These are not mere flowers for ornament, but blossoms […]