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The Essay From the Source Episodes

    Swimming the Avon

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

    The Power of the Thames

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

    The Art of Zen Fly Fishing

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

    Medway Mudlarks

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

    Gaelic Waters

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