I was reminded the other day of an idea I had a long time ago after hearing a documentary about the river Waveney. The idea was a bit of a non starter at the time, so it was shelved as most of my ideas are. Great swathes of them gathering dust in notebooks, on scraps of paper in shoeboxes or down the back of the metaphorical sofa in my head, frankly where most of them should stay. I remembered recording the program and so set about searching for it on my Mac. Alas, no recording was to be found unfortunately. After a quick search on Google I discovered that the file was still available on the BBC science listen again service.
The program is inspired by the Robert Louis Stevenson's journey along the rivers of Northern France and Belgium in his canoe, the Cigarette. Roger Deakin's evocative descriptions of the wildlife and atmosphere along the river - from its source in Redgrave to the Geldeston Locks on the Norfolk/Suffolk border - bring the program to life.
Listen to Cigarette on the Waveney
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