Nighttime on Still Waters
Richard Goode
4.8from 125 ratings
- 219
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 125
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 505K
- YouTube views
About 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.
- Publisher
- Richard Goode
- Category
- society & culture · society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Oct 2020
- Latest episode
- 18 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 219 episodes have a transcript.
18 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Listening (under the pterosaurs' sun)
4 Oct 2026
Playing hopscotch (across the great abyss)
20 Sept 2026
Autumn Drift
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Listening (under the pterosaurs' sun)
Published 18 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I'm not talking here about some metaphorical anthropomorphisation of the world. This has absolutely nothing to do with whimsy or an escape into sentimentality and delusion. This type of listening strips you of all notions of exceptionalism and ego. There is little comfort or reassurance to be had in it. In fact, it can at times be brutal, and it can wound. The truth, no matter how softly it is sung, and no matter how much healing it can bring, cuts deep and stings. You don't walk upon the earth in the same way afterwards. You walk with a little more humility in your step, a little more softly, not as one who knows, but as one who is just beginning to learn. […]
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- YouTube views
- 505,366
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 42 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 83 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 89 / 100
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- Quality
- 89
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 93
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