Bernard Treves’s Boots – Part 5 | The Windy Valley Digest Podcast

Some stories remind us of peace in chaos. Others drag us into the peril of lives lived on a knife’s edge. This episode of The Windy Valley Digest podcast delivers both, pairing Horatio Spafford’s hymn of faith, written in the shadow of grief, with the suspense-filled espionage of Bernard Treves’ Boots. Listen and discover how different lives, real and imagined, ask the same question: how do we endure when everything is at stake?

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Credits

Readers
Bernard Treves’s Boots
David Wales
Audio from librivox.org
Unknown French Soldier
David Wales
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Host
Vince Cowley

Sources
Bernard Treves’s Boots
Clarke, L. (1920) Bernard Treves’s Boots; A Novel of the Secret Service. London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton Limited.

Information On Horatio Gates Spafford
Church of Christ Discipleship. (n.d.). Horatio Gates Spafford: The story behind the hymn “It is well with my soul.” Retrieved September 16, 2025, from https://www.cocdiscipleship.org/middle-ages/horatio-gates-spafford-the-story-behind-the-hymn-it-is-well-with-my-soul/

Additional information on Horatio Gates Spafford.
It Is Well with My Soul” – Wikipedia. Accessed September 16, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Is_Well_with_My_Soul

Music
“The Story” by Alexander Nakarada( https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com )
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ /edited from the original.

"It Is Well with My Soul" by Horatio Gates Spafford, performed by Anastasia Chubarova. Accessed September 16, 2025. https://pixabay.com/users/music_for_videos-26992513/