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By the Water: the full programme

3 hr 22 min · from By the Water

The whole programme in one sitting: 15 stories, 3 hours, with the same welcome and the same gentle gaps as the Somnus programme.

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The stories

  1. 1:28 The Riverside Inn and the Evening Song
  2. 14:57 The Fountain in the Beech Wood
  3. 27:34 The Well That Remembers Every Face
  4. 40:09 The Child the River Brought
  5. 53:35 The Queen Who Remembered How to Laugh
  6. 1:07:27 The Ship That Is Always Coming
  7. 1:21:17 The Feather Robe in the Pine
  8. 1:34:53 The Fish Who Chose Another Water
  9. 1:48:35 The Wise Angler and the Small Fish of the Morning River
  10. 2:01:48 The Kestrel on the Clock Tower
  11. 2:16:16 The Bird Who Would Not Dig the Stream
  12. 2:29:44 The Twin Pines and the Moon-Road
  13. 2:42:26 The Young Gull and the Net-Mender
  14. 2:56:02 The Bridge of Joy Birds
  15. 3:08:36 The Hermit, the Heron, and the Gentle Rain

No adverts, no interruptions: the stories run one after another with a gentle music bed between them, and the music fades to silence at the end.