It’s a foul November night, so why not come and join me aboard the Erica by the warm glow of fire light. I have with me a lovely book that I found last year in a second-hand bookshop and think that it's perfect for a night like this.
Journal entry:
1st November, Wednesday.
“November is born brave
This morning.
The dark water is alive
With movement
And a scatter
Of light.
The walk from the boat
To car
Is under a starfield and
A bold moon.”
Episode Information:
In this episode I read the following poems:
‘The Chilterns’ by Rupert Brooke (extract)
‘Cotswolds’ by David Ashby
‘Cotswold Roads’ by Eva Dobell
‘Tewkesbury Road’ by John Masefield
‘The High Road’ by John Haines
‘Dedicatory Ode’ by Hillaire Belloc (extract)
‘The Ancient Wall’ by Brian Waters
‘The Cotswold Farmers' by John Drinkwater
All poems (excluding Brooke’s) are found in Forest and Vale and High Blue Hill: Poems of Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds and Beyond collected by Johnny Coppin (1991).
I finish with an extract from LTC Rolt’s Narrow Boat.
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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