It was repeated throughout the show's three hours as a constant reminder to listeners that – whatever Barclays' staggeringly broad sins of the past (mis-selling, rigging interest rates, violating sanctions) – it is now firmly on the side of the angels.
Marren's research, however, reveals a long tradition of butterflies representing dark desires, fallen angels, temptation and death.
I did sing about angels, I did sing 'I am the resurrection', but I felt righteous in them days".
After two days of house music and talking to Russians about 'rave techno house trance very tasty vodka', even a German heavy metal DVD played on a TV with a 12-inch screen sounded like angels sighing.
The tales and myths and legends made it clear to me that there was another world, beside the world of having to be a child in a house, an inner world and a vast outer world with large implications – good and evil, angels and demons, fate and love, and terror and beauty.
The battle for the English throne between Matilda and her cousin Stephen between 1135 and 1154 – 18 years of unrest "while God and his angels slept" – seemed bleak for fiction, until Ellis Peters (one of four pen names used by Edith Pargeter for her novels; she also translated Czech literature) recognised that the pervasive uncertainty and unrest were the ideal background for mystery novels.
It added: "Hope the angels make you smile".
"Simply to stand there and try to say that you all behaved like little angels and that you were picked on is pathetic," she said.
The toll is down to nine deaths so far this year after better vetting of Afghan recruits, the deployment of armed "guardian angels" who follow foreign forces at any meeting with Afghans, and other measures.
"It concluded: "Dance with the angels darling".
Learning to be angels Slim pickings Not in everyone's lifetime What's in a peg?
