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Episode 5. Mungo and Merlin

Sunday, 5th February 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland

Kentigern (Mungo) and Myrdain (Merlin)

John Purser takes us into a world of miracles and magic, when Welsh was the language spoken in Strathclyde, and Glasgow’s patron saint St Mungo had an encounter with a hairy naked madman who turned out to be the famous wizard Merlin.

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  1. Trad. - Hwy, hwy
    Mary MacMaster
    BBC recording

  2. Anon. - Responsorium ‘In septentrionali’
    Cappella Nova/Alan Tavener
    CD Scottish Medieval Plainchant: The Miracles of St Kentigern
    (ASV Gaudeamus)

  3. Anon. - Lectio III Erat Igitur
    Cappella Nova/Alan Tavener
    CD Scottish Medieval Plainchant: The Miracles of St Kentigern
    (ASV Gaudeamus)

  4. Anon. - (Robert ap Huw MS) - Gosteg Dafydd Athro
    William Taylor
    CD Two Worlds of the Welsh Harp ( Dorian)

  5. Anon. - (Robert ap Huw MS) – Caniad of St. Silin
    William Taylor
    CD Two Worlds of the Welsh Harp (Dorian)

  6. Mike Scott/May East/Craig Gibsone – Seek the Light
    The Waterboys
    CD Universal Hall (Puck)

  7. Anon. - (Robert ap Huw MS) - Gosteg Dafydd Athro
    William Taylor
    CD Two Worlds of the Welsh Harp (Dorian)

  8. Thomas Wilson - St Kentigern Suite: Tree: Adagio calmo
    Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Rees (Virgin)



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