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These are the days of the long nights, when ¾ of our day gives way to the dark. If we listen carefully, their gifts are rich and restoring. In these strange times we need, once more, to slow down, look up, and hear the night speak to us with its silences. Come aboard the Erica and let’s journey into the night.  

Journal entry:

27th November, Thursday
"This morning,
 The kingfisher wakes
 To a softer, kinder day.

The willow leaf
 Finds the current
 That I cannot see.”

Episode Information:

In this episode I read an extracts from:
 Jen Ratcliffe’s wonderful and highly recommended Substack Mess in a Boat (with spoken word version).
Chet Raymo’s The Soul of the Night (1985) published by Cowley.

I also read Tom Hennan’s ‘Summer Night Air’ from his collection Darkness Sticks to Everything (2013) published by Copper Canyon Press, and refer to Nic Wilson’s Country Diary column.

With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

Susan Baker
Mind Shambles
Clare Hollingsworth
Kevin B.
Fleur and David Mcloughlin
Lois Raphael
Tania Yorgey
Andrea Hansen
Chris Hinds
Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
Captain Arlo
Rebecca Russell
Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
Derek and Pauline Watts
Anna V.
Orange Cookie
Mary Keane.
Tony Rutherford.
Arabella Holzapfel.
Rory with MJ and Kayla.
Narrowboat Precious Jet.
Linda Reynolds Burkins.
Richard Noble.
Carol Ferguson.
Tracie Thomas
Mark and Tricia Stowe
Madeleine Smith

General Details

The intro and the outro music is ‘Crying Cello’ by Oleksii_Kalyna (2024) licensed for free-use by Pixabay (189988).

Narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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Join us tonight aboard the Erica’s warm and cosy cabin as storm Claudia rages outside. Let us experience together the intimate feeling of being snug and safe in a tiny home afloat on the storm lashed canals. 

Journal entry:

14th November, Friday

“Sky of smudged greys,
 Chalky, sooty, dirty laundry water,
 And a light of such silvery metallics
 Lead and steel, iron and zinc,
 That makes the canal surface shine
 And adds richness to berry and leaves.
 Why is it, that on dull mornings like these,
 Do I become so aware of such colour?
 The colour of storms.”

Episode Information:

The soundscape was recorded in the stern study of the narrowboat Erica at the height of Storm Claudia on 24th November 2025. 

With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

Susan Baker
Mind Shambles
 Clare Hollingsworth
 Kevin B.
 Fleur and David Mcloughlin
 Lois Raphael
 Tania Yorgey
 Andrea Hansen
 Chris Hinds
 Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
Captain Arlo
Rebecca Russell
Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
Derek and Pauline Watts
Anna V.
Orange Cookie
Mary Keane.
Tony Rutherford.
Arabella Holzapfel.
Rory with MJ and Kayla.
Narrowboat Precious Jet.
Linda Reynolds Burkins.
Richard Noble.
Carol Ferguson.
Tracie Thomas
Mark and Tricia Stowe
Madeleine Smith

General Details

The intro and the outro music is ‘Crying Cello’ by Oleksii_Kalyna (2024) licensed for free-use by Pixabay (189988).

Narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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It is a hot midsummer night of warm winds that makes the Erica creak at her moorings. Tonight, we find ourselves at a year’s turning point — caught between the stillness and the unsettling. Join us as we explore the solstice, the shifting seasons, the rhythm of carnival swings, and the restless nature of the mind, uncovering the connections between them all.

Journal entry:

16th June, Monday

“Cresting
 The eternal now
 The carp and I
 Share the summer sun”

Episode Information:

In this episode I refer to the website’s ‘The start of it all’ page where you can find all the links to episodes featuring readings from Mum’s book. 

With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

Susan Baker
Mind Shambles
 Clare Hollingsworth
 Kevin B.
 Fleur and David Mcloughlin
 Lois Raphael
 Tania Yorgey
 Andrea Hansen
 Chris Hinds
 David Dirom
 Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
Captain Arlo
Rebecca Russell
Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
Derek and Pauline Watts
Anna V.
Orange Cookie
Mary Keane.
Tony Rutherford.
Arabella Holzapfel.
Rory with MJ and Kayla.
Narrowboat Precious Jet.
Linda Reynolds Burkins.
Richard Noble.
Carol Ferguson.
Tracie Thomas
Mark and Tricia Stowe
Madeleine Smith

General Details

The intro and the outro music is ‘Crying Cello’ by Oleksii_Kalyna (2024) licensed for free-use by Pixabay (189988).

Narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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This week much of the country fell silent for a while and that stillness was the occasion for a chance encounter and finding within the silence the music of bells among crow song. Join us aboard the Erica tonight as we are touched by the enigmatic qualities of bells and stillness.    

Journal entry:

 21st September, Wednesday

Dew, the smell of sheep and wet grass.
 Rooks jostle the lightening sky.
 The company of ducks hunched at the water’s edge
 Shake themselves awake
 And drop into the pool of water
 The colour of dawn.

Episode Information:

fAll field recordings made on 19.09.2022 and features the bells of St Peter's church,  Wootton Wawen. 

In this episode I read short extracts from:

SeánStreet’s (2012) The Poetry of Radio: The colour of sound published by Routledge. 

Seán Street’s (2019) The Sound inside the Silence: Travels in the Sonic Imagination published by Springer.

I also read two short extracts from John Betjeman.

John Betjeman (1958) Introduction to English Country Churches 
John Betjeman (1960) Summoned by Bells originally published by John Murray

Steve Tyrell’s vlog recording his adventures on the NB Precious Jet can be viewed here: Narrowboat Precious Jet. 

David Keating’s Instagram account to view his photographs: david_keating.

For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com. It will also allow you to become more a part of the podcast and you can leave comments, offer suggestions, and reviews. You can even, if you want, leave me a voice mail by clicking on the microphone icon. 

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
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The second of our reading this year takes back to the working-boat families of the First World War. Geoffrey Lewis’ beautifully detailed and cleverly structured tribute to the people who worked the boats through this turbulent period is a lovely and moving tribute to their hard work, sacrifices, and bravery. 

The Longest Trench follows the lives of two families as they work their boats and provides an intimate and carefully-researched window into their lives, charting not just the hardships, but also their joys. As such, it is a touching and heartfelt celebration on an aspect of British life that has been long over-looked. 

The novel is framed in such a clever way that allows Geoffrey to contrast the wide range of experiences working boaters encountered, from running multiple boats, being No. 1s (owners), different types of cargo. It also shines a light on the practical challenges that this life raised. For example, how do you conduct a courtship when the two parties are on different boats and on different routes? What happens when a young child becomes seriously ill?   

Publisher’s (SGM Publishing) blurb:

“Careful research and Mr Lewis’ of the canals make this novel a realistic picture of boating people in the days of horse-drawn narrowboats, and once again his characters become real people whose fortunes matter to his ardent readers: Joy and sadness meet them along the way as news from the various theatres of war is received, while the burgeoning romance between a boy and girl carries us along towards Armistice Day.”

In this episode I also read as short section from Tom Rolt’s Narrow Boat. 

More information and bibliographic details.  

Lewis, Geoffrey (2014) The Longest Trench. Kidlington: SGM Publishing.

Rolt, LTC. (1944) Narrow Boat. London: Eire and Spottiswoode.

I have found that the best site to locate Geoffrey Lewis’ books is at The Canal Shop.

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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The first of our ‘Summer’ readings this year is from Andy Griffee’s meticulously researched, fast-paced, crime thriller Canal Pushers.

Set on the West Midlands canals from Stratford-upon-Avon up to Birmingham and down to Hanbury (a handy map is included at the front of the book). The detail of the canal systems travelled is beautifully captured as is life aboard a narrowboat for would-be owner Jack Johnson. 

I initially started the book with some slight apprehension, being drawn by the canal setting and the rave reviews. However, I was quickly hooked. If crime thrillers are your thing, you are going to love this. If canals and narrowboating are more your thing, I think you will love this too.  

The publisher’s blurb provides the following synopsis:

“Book 1 in the Johnson & Wilde crime mystery series, featuring ex journalist Jack Johnson, the enigmatic Nina Wilde, and a narrowboat with a top speed of 4 miles per hour…
Jack Johnson is newly divorced, recently made redundant and in search of a fresh start. But when a young boy he meets on the canals turns up drowned, trouble seems determined to follow him. With the encouragement of Jack’s unlikely companion, Nina, who’s come aboard his narrowboat, Jumping Jack Flash, to help him navigate the waterways of the Midlands, Jack is soon tangled up in a police investigation that doesn’t quite add up. Is there a serial killer stalking the towpaths? Jack’s got more pressing problems too: can a canal boat outrun an organised crime syndicate and a media manhunt?”

 More information and bibliographic details

Griffee, Andy (2019) Canal Pushers. Leominster: Orphans Publishing.

Andy has written (to date) two further adventures featuring Jack, Nina and Eddie (the border terrier); River Rats (set on the Kennet and Avon) and Oxford Blues (based around the Thames at Oxford). 

More information about Andy can be found on his website: Andy Griffee.

You can follow Andy on Twitter @AndyGriffee to find many pictures of the real-life Eddie!

More information on all the Jack Johnson and Nina Wilde mysteries can be found by going to the Orphans Publishing website.

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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There’s a warm welcome awaiting you under the heavy night skies of summer’s hinterlands. Tonight we meet a very special person with a lop-sided smile and who might be able to teach us to walk with elephants.   

Journal entry:

30th August, Tuesday.

“Day’s end. I stand up here and try to see what is Infront of me. But the future is just a confused blur of uncertainty. When I look back, I can so easily draw-out the most intricate constellations that map the chaos of my footsteps of the paths that I have walked. In them I begin to see order and meaning. Why can’t I do the same for my futures? 

But now, all I see is the hunch of the owl-chapelled oak, in its small bowl of nettles and the sheep whose shadows stretch long across the sunny curve of the hill. Perhaps one day, looking back from some future vantage point, I too will be able to find lines of connection and clarity. The clear path that was taken through my future uncertainty.”

Episode Information:

This episode is dedicated to Angela Oliver who, with her husband Roger, through extraordinary sacrifice enabled an unlikely man to continue to walk carefree and tall with elephants.

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General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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Although a little delayed, the long-awaited rain and thunder did eventually arrive. Join us tonight as we hunker down beside a young willow and enjoy, with a field full of crows, the wonder of a thunderstorm as it roars overhead and all the richness it brings. 

Journal entry:

19th August, Friday.

“An impulse forage among the brambles on a
 Blustery day of tall clouds and sunshine.
 I pick the high berries, you the lower ones.
 I extricate you when a bramble thorns your sleeve.
 Thirty-seven years fall away  
 And my heart melts once more,
 Like it did
 When we first met.

We have done this hundreds of times before
 And will do again.
 But not like this.
 Never again, will it be exactly like this.
 
 These few spontaneous moments
 Pouring blackberries into our bag
 Will somehow be the most cherished memory
 I take from this holiday.

Both instinctively aware of its special quality
 A golden moment that joins us.
 Those few moments when we
 Completely filled the world with our quiet presence.”

Episode Information:

In this episode I read two of Wendell Berry’s Sabbath poems:

XIX – ‘Some Sunday afternoon’

XXI – ‘I was awakened from my dream of the ruined world’

You can listen to the MIND Station using the imbedded player at Mind Station. 

Recording of the rain and thunder recorded on Erica: South Stratford Canal (16.08.2022).

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General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
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It has been a sweltering hot week with temperatures in the 30s (90F). Join me onboard NB Erica, on a hot August night just as the heatwave is about to break, as we listen for the rolling sound of distant thunder. 

Journal entry:

10th August, Wednesday

“The last of today’s sun slowly climbs 
 the dolphin-backed ridge of hill,
 colouring the broad cluster of oaks
 and tawny grass with long shadows.

A few hundred yards from me
 A barrel-roofed lock cottage, 
 Its red door peeling
 And windows now blind.

My notebook lies empty beside me 
 While my head is filled with so many thoughts
 That have track of words to convey them. 

Bats fill my silence.”  

Episode Information:

In this episode I refer to the music of the jazz singer Cassandra Wilson and refer specifically to versions of Darkness on the Delta and the achingly beautiful Love is Blindness.

The field recording of distant thunder was recorded by ‘sagetyrtle’ and uploaded to Freesound in October 2010.

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General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

Contact
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Join me this week as we moor on a still August night, under a proud stand of poplars studded with starlight and moonlight. Tonight, we explore the evocative power of scents and smells. 

Journal entry:

 6th August, Saturday.

"The sun is three fingers above the horizon
 and washes the bankside reeds with golden fire.

Three ducks cast perfect wakes of Vs
 Slowly, swimming the channel of molten bronze.

There is something ethereal about this light
 Like stepping from one world into another.

The sun has always been an alchemist at heart."

Episode Information:

For more information about Noctule bats (Nyctalus noctula), which is the largest bat in the UK, there is an excellent article on the Woodland Trust's website: Noctule Bat.

For photographs relating to this episode, please go to our website – details immediately below. 

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General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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