Nighttime on Still Waters

A narrowboat-based audio journal on canal life, living aboard, the elements, and the night. Perfect late-night listening for dreamers, insomniacs, night owls, nocturnalists, drifters, and nomads. For lovers Fagen's 'Nightfly', Auden's 'Night Mail', Hopper's 'Nighthawks' and the 'drifting sea-dark streets' of Dylan Thomas. For all those who used to listen to the transistor under your pillow, love the sound of distant trains and rain against the windowpanes, canals and drover's tracks, lost music, splashed puddles, fireflies and bats, hares by moonlight, windsong among pines, owl-light, the shipping forecast, and all the wonderful, terrifying, grand and tawdry avenues of the night. Cosy listening for bedtimes.

Podcasting since 2020 • 220 episodes

Nighttime on Still Waters

Latest Episodes

Mist on the Water

Welcome to a foggy All Hallows Eve on the canal. Come aboard to join us around the fire as we contemplate the mythic qualities of the season, enjoy a spooky tale from one of our listeners, and share the special joys of canal nights with Mess in...

November 01, 2026 • Episode 220 • 33:30

Listening (under the pterosaurs' sun)

Tonight, we walk through deep time. Ours is a generation who are the witnesses to the Great Unravelling, but we are also part of the Great Remembering. With handfuls of seeds and ancient soil, we walk out of our books, our learning, and our lan...

October 18, 2026 • Episode 219 • 38:00

Playing hopscotch (across the great abyss)

While work pressures have made tonight’s episode a little shorter than usual, the pause feels serendipitous. This evening, we embrace the quiet, celebrating the small, sacred pockets of stillness that naturally invite us in and away from an inc...

October 04, 2026 • Episode 218 • 24:21

Autumn Drift

The slow drift from summer into autumn is underway and with it comes gentle shifts (both seen and unseen) that are the pulse and rhythm of the earth and life along the canal. Join us tonight on the Erica as we celebrate this slow dance...

September 20, 2026 • Episode 217 • 37:37

The Uncertainties of Geese

It’s a beautiful night, but there is an autumnal damp chill in the air. So, snuggle up with us aboard the Erica as we enter the mysterious, but perhaps not so different, world of geese, and we find out what happened when nine of them f...

September 06, 2026 • Episode 216 • 35:54

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thanks for the episode tonight and just what I needed. “Lungta are so evocative and we have some in our van Bluey where we have lived and travelled in for 3 years.Watching them flutter reminds me of the essence of time shifting towards something we all will reach at some point. For us the building of our tiny house is underway for a new chapter in our lives. Let's hope the flutter will continue. Take care and fair winds Dave and Jo in a cold Scotland tonight.

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