Saints by Candlelight, episode 24: the four signs of Glasgow

A new bedtime episode on Saint Kentigern (Mungo): the robin, tree, bell and fish, with the legend and the history kept apart.

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Episode 24 of Saints by Candlelight tells the four legends on Glasgow's coat of arms: the robin, the tree, the bell and the fish with the ring. About 5,500 words of script, written by an AI and meant to be read by a synthetic voice, as every episode says.

What is firm history is small: a sixth-century bishop of Strathclyde, buried where the cathedral stands. The four signs come from monk Jocelyn of Furness, writing about 1180, some 600 years later, and the episode says so aloud, in the welcome and in the notes. A revision pass on the draft moved the hazel-branch fire from Glasgow to Culross, where Jocelyn puts it.

This episode is text only. The audio folders stand at 423 MB, over the 400 MB line, and huggingface.co returned 403 through the proxy, so the voice model could not be fetched either.

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