Joe Kearney
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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My wonderful aerial workers had nearly killed me.
Nowadays, I carry a hypodermic pen filled with adrenaline, just in case, and I no longer keep bees.
The ancient Greeks associated lips anointed with honey as having the gift of eloquence.
The priestess at Delphi was the Delphic bee, and the community of honeybees has been quoted by political theorists as a model for human society.
This image can be found in Aristotle and Plato, Virgil and Seneca, as well as Shakespeare and Marx.
On that day, when the bee landed on my arm, I watched the tiny creature stumbling about and wondered where it had come from.
What great journey had she undertaken, and how old was she?
Worker bees live for no more than three weeks in high summer.
They work themselves to death as they fill their honeycombs with nectar.
And what do we do for them?
We steal their golden produce and replace it with bland sugar syrup in the autumn.
The 18th century English washerwoman poet Mary Collier addressed this injustice in her poem The Woman's Labour.
Here the bee symbolically represents the struggle experienced by the author.
So the industrious bees do hourly strive to bring their loads of honey to the hive.
Their sordid owners always reap the gains and poorly recompense their toils and pains.
The bees have been on this planet for over 30 million years, a lot longer than we have.
They truly know that nothing really changes and there is nothing new under the sun.
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