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Nighttime on Still Waters — 215 episodes

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1

Slipping beneath the surface

2

The impression of remembered light

3

Boater (Summer Readings - 8)

4

The Gentleness (of the shortening days)

5

In the Cool of the Evening

6

How old is Mindful's Vanessa (and other questions I don't have the answer for)

7

Moonlight on Ox-Eye Daisies

8

More Raven than Rook (The clock-winders)

9

Evensong of the Wild

10

Finding Erica (On choosing a boat)

11

Between the Borrowing Days

12

The Seeds of Spring ('Somewhere, right now')

13

An Under-Sung Companion (to the canal)

14

The Seventh Word (Reflections on canal-life - 2)

15

In the Belly of Winter

16

The Sixth Winter - 200th Episode (Reflections on canal-life - 1)

17

Canal Life (Now and Future)

18

The Remarkable Tale of Bertrum Crane (A story for Christmas)

19

An Advent on the Canal

20

The Night Speaks with its Silences

21

The Colour of Storms (Storm Claudia passing through)

22

Morton's Rise (A canal story for Halloween)

23

A Common Thread (Sunday at the moorings)

24

That Very Particular Joy of Friday Nights (and crisps)

25

Down to the River (On this blue and grey September day)

26

Under a Canopy of Trees ('Your word')

27

Back from Blacking (And the ingenuity of drydocks)

28

With Tom Rolt on the North Stratford Canal (Summer Readings)

29

A Summer Wind among the Alders (Speaks of Lludd and Llefelys)

30

Unsettled at the Still-Point (Of the year)

31

A brooding sky and mirrored waters (Fen Country)

32

Erica's Place

33

A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 4

34

A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 3

35

A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 2

36

A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 1

37

Cloud Herder (Won't you spin us one last story?)

38

On the Leading Edge of Spring

39

Winter Readings ('The Great Frost of 1895' and 'Day of the 'Iceberg'')

40

Orion Still Looks Down (On the land my shadow knows)

41

The Changes that Come

42

Wrapped in Freezing Fog

43

Into the Silence (The Undreaming)

44

Practically Speaking (Listeners' questions - 7)

45

Winter's Whispers (The wisdom of the long nights)

46

The Days of No Shadow (... and then a deer barked)

47

"Stretched into Tales that Leave a Mark"

48

The Long Village (Villages and tribes)

49

A Touch of Autumn (Apple picking time)

50

The Consolation of Ducks

51

It turned a bit wet (Afloat in Hiroshige's rain storm)

52

Shot through with wonder (First glimpse of the sea)

53

Holiday Interlude (& the Cap'n's Dad)

54

Meursault's Walk & Mine (Dad's ashes)

55

Spun by Wonderment (above Hemel Hempstead)

56

Living inside the Seasons

57

The Children of the Children of Lir

58

A Sunday Morning in May

59

First Impressions (On canal life)

60

The Dusts of Winter (Spring Cleaning)

61

Just shadows on a summer lawn

62

On Surveys and Winter Warmth (Listeners' questions - 6)

63

Walking Home (In fading light)

64

Rough Crossings

65

I Felt the Anchor Shift (An Update)

66

The Christmas Eves of Childhood

67

Afloat with Maggie (Listeners' questions - 5)

68

When Mum married Dad (95th birthday edition)

69

When Mum met Dad (95th Birthday edition)

70

The Battered Landscapes of our Edens

71

When Guy Fawkes wore my old dressing gown

72

November Fireside Nights

73

Autumn Forest

74

The Rebellious Light of Beauty (The last dandelion of summer)

75

Words & Music (Listeners' questions - 4)

76

Swings and Roundabouts (Listeners' Questions - 3)

77

Under the ghost of a Harvest Moon

78

Uncertain Futures (Listeners' questions - 2)

79

'No Regrets' (Listeners' questions - 1)

80

Home thoughts of a Pilgrim (Chasing the wind)

81

Roots do not hold you down (Hedge wisdom)

82

As long as the rain talks (I will listen)

83

An August-coloured Evening

84

Adventures and Departures (The 'Kathy' Chronicles - pt 4)

85

The New Baby Arrives (The 'Kathy' Chronicles - pt 3)

86

Crochet by Lantern Light (The 'Kathy' Chronicles - pt 2)

87

Low along the Fox Paths

88

Changes (lessons from a field edge)

89

Facing the Fears with Maggie

90

Five Finger Widths (above the horizon)

91

These are the Long Days (on Windmill Hill)

92

'A Little Clinker-Built Boat' (The 'Kathy' Chronicles - pt 1)

93

In Praise of Locks (and lock-keepers)

94

The Sun that Shone on Eden (still shines upon us here)

95

A Nightingale Sang (and the world listened)

96

Up on the Roof (Waiting for the rain)

97

The Three of Seven (At the conclave of oaks)

98

When blackbirds learn to sing

99

Night Swimming (After the snows)

100

The Miles We Have Walked (You and Me)

101

Songs to the Younger Part (Hymn of the Pearl)

102

Lock Wheeling

103

February Dawning

104

A train in the distance ('Night Mail')

105

One day last summer

106

Tuesday Morning, 5.30am (The Voyage of Bran)

107

When darkness falls (Skating on 'un-time')

108

The Christmas Heron

109

'Earth stood hard as iron...'

110

Those eyes of old (look out at me)

111

Nightwalk 2 (Moon shadows across the water)

112

Rainy town (as darkness falls)

113

Stories are for listening: Blisworth Tunnel (Ian Douglas)

114

Of cormorants and graduands

115

Today I held back time

116

'By badger light and lantern's sigh' (Magickry)

117

Autumn colours the tattered garments of summer

118

Living in Rehoboam's land

119

Rory's episode (Red gumboots and a yellow summer dress)

120

Church bells among crow song

121

The Longest Trench (Summer readings)

122

Canal Pushers (Summer readings)

123

Milky tea and four sugars (Walking with elephants)

124

Beside a young willow (in a thunderstorm)

125

Hot August Nights (Listening for the thunder)

126

The Scent of God

127

Down by the Cattle Pond

128

Let the Stars Sing out your Stories

129

The Dog Days of Summer

130

Unfamiliar Mirrors (... and a herring)

131

This one unremarkable dusk

132

Love Letters (Written in Canal Water)

133

Lessons from the Breadlady

134

'I've Got Her Now' (Love and Hawthorn Blossom)

135

Caught in a Rhyme

136

On Drying Days (Like This)

137

The Colour of Water

138

When David Came (Cruising the Cut)

139

Banbury Town (Rainy Saturday Afternoon)

140

'A Gypsy Love of Colour' (Painted Boats)

141

Entanglements with the Archdeacon

142

No Small Gift

143

I have Heard the Roar of Spring (and it is fearful)

144

Steps out of Step

145

Skies of Impossible Blue

146

Wings of Angels (Cyril)

147

Masters of the High Wire

148

The Darkest of Nights

149

Riding the Storm (Eunice)

150

Windy Days and Nights

151

Solitary Stranger: The Wigeon

152

A Dark Alchemy of Words

153

Winter on the Moorings

154

Echoes of Distant Memories

155

Into a New Year

156

A Fireside Christmas Eve

157

The Hill

158

Winter Wisdom (Wintrum frod)

159

A Rhythm of Cycles

160

It was a dark and stormy night...

161

Traveller's Joy

162

Episode Out of Time

163

A Dance of Firelight (and After the Fireworks)

164

By Swede-Lantern Light (Halloween)

165

The Elf of Plants

166

Worlds Turning Gold

167

Shipping Forecasts and Weather Logs

168

Rook Ravaged Skies

169

Call of Wild Geese

170

The Gongoozler and the Nomad

171

Shrewley Tunnel: Sailing dark waters

172

(Un)Naming of Parts

173

Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' (Summer readings #4)

174

Summer Heavy with Fruit

175

At Milepost 16

176

Night Walking

177

Lucy M. Boston's 'The River at Green Knowe' (Summer readings #3)

178

Temple Thurston's 'The Flower of Gloster' (Summer readings #2)

179

Hassell and Hollingshead - Early canal writings (Summer readings #1)

180

The Heron's Gaze

181

Twilight Blue

182

Summer Sounds - canalside

183

Fractured Beauties of the Night

184

Fledglings

185

Rhyme & (sometimes) Reason

186

Into the Night

187

The Clerical Heron

188

May Rains

189

A Lifetime Ago

190

Back Home!

191

On the Grave of Winter

192

Boat Blacking

193

Canalscapes of Childhood

194

Man on the Bicycle

195

Moving On

196

'Boots as thick as a moderate slice of bread and butter'

197

A Whispered Spring

198

Haunted Canals

199

When Ice Sings

200

Canal Time

201

Snow on Water

202

Deep and Wide

203

Morning Sun: Living the dark days of January

204

Keeping Warm

205

Greet the New Year

206

Christmas Eve

207

Winter of 1962/3

208

Cygnus

209

Nightwalk

210

Waterways

211

Down the Cut

212

Narrowboat Lockdown

213

Tumblehome

214

The Erica behind the Erica

215

Duck calls in the Night