Autumn Forest

Nighttime on Still Waters

I am not sure if it is just me, but so far autumn doesn’t feel quite so ‘autumny’ as it usually does. Therefore, I think that it is a perfect time to savour a reading from one of my most favourite childhood books, Brendon Chase by BB.

Journal entry:

26th October, Thursday.

“Darkness.
Mizzle transforms the water
Into star-fields of pinpricks of light.
Evanescent.

Like walking
Through the tangle
Of watery
Spiders’ webs.

A dance of tiny droplets
In the torchlight’s beam.
Cloud-walking
Beside the canal.”

Episode Information:

In this episode I read an extract from BB’s (1944) wonderful Brendon Chase republished in 2016 by Puffin Books.

I also refer to Miles Hadfield’s An English Almanac (1950) published by Dent and Sons.

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

Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
Derek and Pauline Watts
Anna V.
Sean James Cameron
Orange Cookie
Donna Kelly
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

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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