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

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Join us round the stove tonight as we celebrate the joys and reflect on the lessons of living on a boat when winter approaches in the good company of Tom Rolt and Christine Rigden.

This episode is dedicated to Dad, who would have been 96 today.

Journal entry:

28th November, Thursday.

“Old moon
Curls with his back
To the dawn.
A slivered, sickled
Crescent of cold silver
That bathes the ivy
In frost.

My feet slide
On beauty.”

Episode Information:

In this episode I read an extract from Tom Rolt’s (1944) Narrow Boat and ‘Winter Boating’ and ‘Gone Aground’ by Christine Rigden from her volume (2015) Metamorphosis.

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

Lois Raphael
Sami Walbury
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
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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챕터

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Journal entry (00:00:45)

3. Welcome to NB Erica (00:01:08)

4. News from the moorings (00:02:26)

5. Cabin chat (00:09:28)

6. Winter's Whispers (The wisdom of the long nights) (00:20:40)

7. 'Winter Boating' by Christine Rigden (00:20:45)

8. Excerpt from 'Narrow Boat' by Tom Rolt (00:24:08)

9. 'Gone Aground' by Christine Rigden (00:33:40)

10. Signing off (00:35:27)

11. Weather Log (00:35:53)