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Nighttime on Still Waters — 207 episodes

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1

Evensong of the Wild

2

Finding Erica (On choosing a boat)

3

Between the Borrowing Days

4

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

5

An Under-Sung Companion (to the canal)

6

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

7

In the Belly of Winter

8

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

9

Canal Life (Now and Future)

10

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

11

An Advent on the Canal

12

The Night Speaks with its Silences

13

The Colour of Storms (Storm Claudia passing through)

14

Morton's Rise (A canal story for Halloween)

15

A Common Thread (Sunday at the moorings)

16

That Very Particular Joy of Friday Nights (and crisps)

17

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

18

Under a Canopy of Trees ('Your word')

19

Back from Blacking (And the ingenuity of drydocks)

20

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

21

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

22

Unsettled at the Still-Point (Of the year)

23

A brooding sky and mirrored waters (Fen Country)

24

Erica's Place

25

A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 4

26

A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 3

27

A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 2

28

A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 1

29

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

30

On the Leading Edge of Spring

31

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

32

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

33

The Changes that Come

34

Wrapped in Freezing Fog

35

Into the Silence (The Undreaming)

36

Practically Speaking (Listeners' questions - 7)

37

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

38

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

39

"Stretched into Tales that Leave a Mark"

40

The Long Village (Villages and tribes)

41

A Touch of Autumn (Apple picking time)

42

The Consolation of Ducks

43

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

44

Shot through with wonder (First glimpse of the sea)

45

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

46

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

47

Spun by Wonderment (above Hemel Hempstead)

48

Living inside the Seasons

49

The Children of the Children of Lir

50

A Sunday Morning in May

51

First Impressions (On canal life)

52

The Dusts of Winter (Spring Cleaning)

53

Just shadows on a summer lawn

54

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

55

Walking Home (In fading light)

56

Rough Crossings

57

I Felt the Anchor Shift (An Update)

58

The Christmas Eves of Childhood

59

Afloat with Maggie (Listeners' questions - 5)

60

When Mum married Dad (95th birthday edition)

61

When Mum met Dad (95th Birthday edition)

62

The Battered Landscapes of our Edens

63

When Guy Fawkes wore my old dressing gown

64

November Fireside Nights

65

Autumn Forest

66

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

67

Words & Music (Listeners' questions - 4)

68

Swings and Roundabouts (Listeners' Questions - 3)

69

Under the ghost of a Harvest Moon

70

Uncertain Futures (Listeners' questions - 2)

71

'No Regrets' (Listeners' questions - 1)

72

Home thoughts of a Pilgrim (Chasing the wind)

73

Roots do not hold you down (Hedge wisdom)

74

As long as the rain talks (I will listen)

75

An August-coloured Evening

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

Low along the Fox Paths

80

Changes (lessons from a field edge)

81

Facing the Fears with Maggie

82

Five Finger Widths (above the horizon)

83

These are the Long Days (on Windmill Hill)

84

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

85

In Praise of Locks (and lock-keepers)

86

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

87

A Nightingale Sang (and the world listened)

88

Up on the Roof (Waiting for the rain)

89

The Three of Seven (At the conclave of oaks)

90

When blackbirds learn to sing

91

Night Swimming (After the snows)

92

The Miles We Have Walked (You and Me)

93

Songs to the Younger Part (Hymn of the Pearl)

94

Lock Wheeling

95

February Dawning

96

A train in the distance ('Night Mail')

97

One day last summer

98

Tuesday Morning, 5.30am (The Voyage of Bran)

99

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

100

The Christmas Heron

101

'Earth stood hard as iron...'

102

Those eyes of old (look out at me)

103

Nightwalk 2 (Moon shadows across the water)

104

Rainy town (as darkness falls)

105

Stories are for listening: Blisworth Tunnel (Ian Douglas)

106

Of cormorants and graduands

107

Today I held back time

108

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

109

Autumn colours the tattered garments of summer

110

Living in Rehoboam's land

111

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

112

Church bells among crow song

113

The Longest Trench (Summer readings)

114

Canal Pushers (Summer readings)

115

Milky tea and four sugars (Walking with elephants)

116

Beside a young willow (in a thunderstorm)

117

Hot August Nights (Listening for the thunder)

118

The Scent of God

119

Down by the Cattle Pond

120

Let the Stars Sing out your Stories

121

The Dog Days of Summer

122

Unfamiliar Mirrors (... and a herring)

123

This one unremarkable dusk

124

Love Letters (Written in Canal Water)

125

Lessons from the Breadlady

126

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

127

Caught in a Rhyme

128

On Drying Days (Like This)

129

The Colour of Water

130

When David Came (Cruising the Cut)

131

Banbury Town (Rainy Saturday Afternoon)

132

'A Gypsy Love of Colour' (Painted Boats)

133

Entanglements with the Archdeacon

134

No Small Gift

135

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

136

Steps out of Step

137

Skies of Impossible Blue

138

Wings of Angels (Cyril)

139

Masters of the High Wire

140

The Darkest of Nights

141

Riding the Storm (Eunice)

142

Windy Days and Nights

143

Solitary Stranger: The Wigeon

144

A Dark Alchemy of Words

145

Winter on the Moorings

146

Echoes of Distant Memories

147

Into a New Year

148

A Fireside Christmas Eve

149

The Hill

150

Winter Wisdom (Wintrum frod)

151

A Rhythm of Cycles

152

It was a dark and stormy night...

153

Traveller's Joy

154

Episode Out of Time

155

A Dance of Firelight (and After the Fireworks)

156

By Swede-Lantern Light (Halloween)

157

The Elf of Plants

158

Worlds Turning Gold

159

Shipping Forecasts and Weather Logs

160

Rook Ravaged Skies

161

Call of Wild Geese

162

The Gongoozler and the Nomad

163

Shrewley Tunnel: Sailing dark waters

164

(Un)Naming of Parts

165

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

166

Summer Heavy with Fruit

167

At Milepost 16

168

Night Walking

169

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

170

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

171

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

172

The Heron's Gaze

173

Twilight Blue

174

Summer Sounds - canalside

175

Fractured Beauties of the Night

176

Fledglings

177

Rhyme & (sometimes) Reason

178

Into the Night

179

The Clerical Heron

180

May Rains

181

A Lifetime Ago

182

Back Home!

183

On the Grave of Winter

184

Boat Blacking

185

Canalscapes of Childhood

186

Man on the Bicycle

187

Moving On

188

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

189

A Whispered Spring

190

Haunted Canals

191

When Ice Sings

192

Canal Time

193

Snow on Water

194

Deep and Wide

195

Morning Sun: Living the dark days of January

196

Keeping Warm

197

Greet the New Year

198

Christmas Eve

199

Winter of 1962/3

200

Cygnus

201

Nightwalk

202

Waterways

203

Down the Cut

204

Narrowboat Lockdown

205

Tumblehome

206

The Erica behind the Erica

207

Duck calls in the Night