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The Essay From the Source Episodes

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  1. Swimming the Avon

    5/5 Poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett swims the River Avon in search of inspiration.

  2. The Power of the Thames

    4/5 Helen Czerski shares a physicist's view of the River Thames

  3. Medway Mudlarks

    2/5 Driftwood, a Victorian poison bottle and a sailor's lost boot. Potent inspiration for art.

  4. The Art of Zen Fly Fishing

    Once lead singer of The Undertones, Feargel Sharkey now gets his kicks from rod and line.

  5. Gaelic Waters

    Folk singer Julie Fowlis conjures kelpies, selkies and waterfall banshees from Gaelic song