In gratitude for his assistance, Lord and Lady Pelennor invite Falk to visit their estate. Is there no end to their generosity? Is there no escape? Is chili better than rashers for your supper? Listen to find out!

Zildjian’s Away to Shropshire, episode 108 of This Gun in My Hand, was lorded over by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I resolve the endless yearning between two hearts and bring them together? With This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. This episode is a spin-off from the fake commercial “Henley’s Away to Shropshire” in episode 73, and partly inspired by season one of Sanditon.

2. Another example of rich or middle class Brits taking strange children into their homes is Wuthering Heights. I’m aware of the fan theory that Heathcliff is an illegitimate son of Mr. Earnshaw, which explains why Earnshaw would favor the boy over his own children. But the cover story Earnshaw apparently expects everyone to believe is that he adopted a kid off the street at random. As Eighteenth Century Brits were wont to do, I guess?

3. Lord Pelennor uses the word “arse,” so it’s not cussing by American standards even though they pronounce it exactly the same way as that other word. Not going to mark this episode as having “explicit language.”

Credits:
The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Song Title: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629
Composed by Henry Purcell, 1692.
Performed by Carl Pini, John Tunnell, Anthony Pini and Harold Lester.
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/11140-the-fairy-queen-z629/

Song Title: Consolation, Songs Without Words, Op. 30, No. 3, Adagio non troppo (E major)
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by Anonymous
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/348-songs-without-words-op-30/

Sound Effect Title: Outdoor ambience near a forest with birdsong (Midlands, England)
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/727609/

Sound Effect Title: R22-05-Two Horses on Dirt Road.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479790/

Sound Effect Title: G52-10-Horse and Buggy.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437081/

Sound Effect Title: 20070918.galloping.horse.wave
By dobroide
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/41180/

Sound Effect Title: S01-01_Horse trots in on hard dirt; stops; trotting out.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675422/?

Sound Effect Title: Horse-drawn carriage - Approach and stop.wav
By Sirderf
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/333680/

Sound Effect Title: stomp01.wav
By JanKoehl
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/85600/

Sound Effect Title: G38-03-Horse Gallops Through Leaves.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/437096/

Sound Effect Title: horse snort breathe eat recording
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/531429/

Sound Effect Title: Horse Whinny 1.wav
By GoodListener
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/322445/

Sound Effect Title: Fist banging on wood surface.wav
By 221339
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/655133/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated #1, August 1950, in public domain, pencils and inks by Jim Lavery.