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Mist on the Water

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Listening (under the pterosaurs' sun)

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Playing hopscotch (across the great abyss)

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Autumn Drift

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The Uncertainties of Geese

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Slipping beneath the surface

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The impression of remembered light

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Boater (Summer Readings - 8)

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The Gentleness (of the shortening days)

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In the Cool of the Evening

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

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Moonlight on Ox-Eye Daisies

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More Raven than Rook (The clock-winders)

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Evensong of the Wild

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Finding Erica (On choosing a boat)

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Between the Borrowing Days

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

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An Under-Sung Companion (to the canal)

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

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In the Belly of Winter

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

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Canal Life (Now and Future)

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

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An Advent on the Canal

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The Night Speaks with its Silences

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The Colour of Storms (Storm Claudia passing through)

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Morton's Rise (A canal story for Halloween)

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A Common Thread (Sunday at the moorings)

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That Very Particular Joy of Friday Nights (and crisps)

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

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Under a Canopy of Trees ('Your word')

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Back from Blacking (And the ingenuity of drydocks)

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

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

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Unsettled at the Still-Point (Of the year)

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A brooding sky and mirrored waters (Fen Country)

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Erica's Place

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A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 4

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A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 3

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A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 2

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A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 1

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

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On the Leading Edge of Spring

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

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

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The Changes that Come

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Wrapped in Freezing Fog

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Into the Silence (The Undreaming)

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Practically Speaking (Listeners' questions - 7)

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

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

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"Stretched into Tales that Leave a Mark"

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The Long Village (Villages and tribes)

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A Touch of Autumn (Apple picking time)

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The Consolation of Ducks

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

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Shot through with wonder (First glimpse of the sea)

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

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

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Spun by Wonderment (above Hemel Hempstead)

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Living inside the Seasons

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The Children of the Children of Lir

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A Sunday Morning in May

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First Impressions (On canal life)

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The Dusts of Winter (Spring Cleaning)

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Just shadows on a summer lawn

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

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Walking Home (In fading light)

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Rough Crossings

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I Felt the Anchor Shift (An Update)

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The Christmas Eves of Childhood

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Afloat with Maggie (Listeners' questions - 5)

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When Mum married Dad (95th birthday edition)

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When Mum met Dad (95th Birthday edition)

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The Battered Landscapes of our Edens

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When Guy Fawkes wore my old dressing gown

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November Fireside Nights

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Autumn Forest

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

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Words & Music (Listeners' questions - 4)

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Swings and Roundabouts (Listeners' Questions - 3)

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Under the ghost of a Harvest Moon

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Uncertain Futures (Listeners' questions - 2)

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'No Regrets' (Listeners' questions - 1)

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Home thoughts of a Pilgrim (Chasing the wind)

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Roots do not hold you down (Hedge wisdom)

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As long as the rain talks (I will listen)

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An August-coloured Evening

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

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

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

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Low along the Fox Paths

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Changes (lessons from a field edge)

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Facing the Fears with Maggie

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Five Finger Widths (above the horizon)

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These are the Long Days (on Windmill Hill)

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

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In Praise of Locks (and lock-keepers)

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

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A Nightingale Sang (and the world listened)