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Come with me for a walk by the canal and I will show you something wonderful! This week we explore how names and memories have the power to root and reinforce our connections with home and tell us something very important about ourselves. 

Journal entry:

 27th May, Saturday

“Late afternoon sun slants into
 The tobacco-coloured waters.
 Fifteen or more carp weightless
 Among the cow pastures of weed-drift.

With a flick of a tail, they all glide as one
 In a lithe piscine murmuration
 Look! They’ve formed the shape of a starling
 Flying in a tobacco-coloured sky!”

Episode Information:

In this episode I refer to the work of Elinor Gwynn and Keith H Basso’s (1996) book Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and language among the Western Apache published by University of New Mexico Press.

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Laurie and Liz
 Phil Pickin
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 Rory and MJ.
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Linda Reynolds Burkins.
Richard Noble.
Carol Ferguson.
Tracie Thomas
Mike 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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